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ISBN: 9783897902381 - Guide to the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
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Guide to the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim

Cornelie Holzach

ISBN: 9783897902381
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Arnoldsche
Edition: illustrated edition


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The Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim is the only museum worldwide exclusively devoted to jewellery. The collection of the museum contains thousands of historical and contemporary items of jewellery: original objects of adornment from six millennia, dating from prehistoric times to present. The major focus of the museum's collection is on jewellery from Greek and Etruscan…

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The Pforzheim Jewelry Museum, located in Germany, at the edge of the Black Forest, reopened in March 2006 following extensive remodeling. It is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to jewelry. The collection ranges from Greek, Etruscan and Roman jewelry through the Renaissance, Baroque, Jugendstil/Art Nouveau and Art Deco. There is also a unique collection of modern art jewelry from the past fifty years. The extensive Pforzheim Museum collection of rings from antiquity to the present is particularly important. The wonderful selection of jewelry in the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim collection is impressively documented through striking colour photographs. In English and German
 
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