Sèvres – Cité de la céramique

[2] Denis-Desire Riocreux, a renowned painter at the manufacture became the director with a goal of collecting and studying fine ceramics from all over the world.

The museum became independent of the factory in 1927 under director Henry-Pierre Fourest, and was attached to the Musée du Louvre in Paris for conservation purposes in 1934.

Beginning in 1975, the museum began seeking out modern ceramics, and the exhibition space was expanded with eight new rooms.

The first floor of the museum is dedicated to European earthenware and porcelain from the sixteenth century to the present.

Organized by CERA, the first edition of Sevres Outdoors was held from June 30 to September 31 in 2014 with 30 artworks from 25 Parisian galleries.