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Home / Reference / Museums / Arts and Entertainment / Decorative Arts
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- All Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts - Collections comprise over 40,000 pieces of Russian decorative-applied and folk art, including unique specimens of wood carving, painting on wood, weaving, pottery, embroidery and many other folk arts. Located in Moscow.
all-moscow.ru/culture/museum/decprikl/decprik.en.html
- Astley Hall - 16th century English house now serving as a museum of decorative and visual arts. Includes selections of Leeds Pottery, glassware, and textiles online.
www.astleyhall.co.uk
- Blaafarveværket - Art and cultural museum located in what was once the world's largest manufacturing plant of cobalt blue pigment, with a permanent exhibit of antique pocelain and cobalt blue glass. In English and Norwegian.
www.blaa.no
- Burgerhuis - Museum in Stellenbosch which houses period furniture.
www.museums.org.za/burgerhuisstel
- Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art - Comprehensive collection of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany as well as fine 19th and 20th century American decorative arts.
www.morsemuseum.org
- Decorative Arts Center of Ohio - State-wide organization to foster education in the arts of daily life, with exhibits on glass, quilts, and neoclassical furniture. Lancaster, Ohio.
www.decartsohio.org
- Holburne Museum Crafts Study - Museum of fine and decorative arts with superb art collection of Sir William Holburne at its heart. The museum also houses the Crafts Study Centre, with a unique archive of British crafts and decorative arts.
www.bath.ac.uk/Holburne
- Museo di Arti Decorative - Features highlights from a collection of 18th century decorative arts. Museum located in Torino, Italy.
www.fondazioneaccorsi.it
- Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities - Built around two major collections, the museum exhibits over a thousand objects of ceramics, gold and silver art, and crafts from China.
www.ostasiatmuseum.com/english.htm
- Rosenbach Museum and Library - Encompasses the collections of the Rosenbach brothers, including decorative arts and rare books and manuscripts.
www.rosenbach.org
- Stellenbosch Museum - Decorative arts and furnishings from various style periods of Stellenbosch's history and a toy and miniature display are exhibited in four houses comprising the museum.
www.museums.org.za/stellmus
- The Danish Museum of Decorative Art - International museum of decorative art in Copenhagen, with exhibits of eastern Asian art, European glass, textiles, Royal Copenhagen porcelain, and 19th century Danish furniture and ceramics.
www.kunstindustrimuseet.dk
- The Museums of The Potteries - Four ceramics museums in Stoke-on-Trent.
www.stoke.gov.uk/museums
- The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery - The world's finest collection of Staffordshire ceramics as well as an art gallery with impressive collections of paintings, and textiles.
www.stoke.gov.uk/museums/pmag
- The Wallace Collection, Hertford House - Considered one of the best collections of fine arts including paintings, porcelain, furnishings and armoury.
www.the-wallace-collection.org.uk
- Victoria and Albert Museum - Museum of the decorative arts founded in 1852 to support and encourage excellence in art and design.
www.vam.ac.uk
- Vitra Design Museum - Museum documenting and exhibiting industrial furniture design.
www.design-museum.com
- William Morris Gallery - The only museum devoted to the art of England's best known designer includes internationally known collections illustrating Morris's life, work and influence.
www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg
- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library - Site offers information on the Delaware museum, the decorative arts and the historic houses of Odessa, which are owned by Winterthur.
www.winterthur.org
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