Ceramics museum

Others have international collections, which may be centered on ceramics from Europe or East Asia or have a more global emphasis.

Outstanding major ceramics collections in general museums include The Palace Museum, Beijing, with 340,000 pieces,[1] and the National Palace Museum in Taipei city, Taiwan (25,000 pieces);[2] both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC (12,000, all East Asian[3]) have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States.

Many of the historic ceramics manufacturers have museums at or very near their factories, sometimes owned by the company, sometimes independent institutions.

Some specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate):

A Sèvres dinner-service on display at the Museo delle porcellane di Firenze.
The Gladstone Pottery Museum .
Porcelain miners at the Meissen Porcelain Museum
The Terracotta Army on display; view from visitor's gallery.
The Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché in Limoges concentrates on the local Limoges porcelain .
The 19th-century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran .
The State Ceramics Museum, Moscow: A dinner service presented by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia upon signing the Treaties of Tilsit .
A bottle kiln at the Coalport China Museum .