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A Path through Time and Cultures: The Jewellery Museum in Italy
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The Jewellery Museum in Italy (Image: Cosmo Laera)
Opened in December, 2014, the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza is the very first museum in Italy dedicated entirely to jewellery. The 410 square-metre museum in the Basilica Palladiana has nine rooms and exhibits over 400 jewels.
The Museum is curated and managed by Alba Cappellieri, Professor of Jewellery Design at the Milan Polytechnic and Italy's main jewellery researcher, according to the museum. The museum has two levels: a ground floor entrance with a bookshop on jewels, and a versatile room dedicated to temporary exhibitions of precious jewels. The upper floor, which is the heart of the place, has nine rooms, curated by international experts, and holding about 400 jewels - from prehistoric times to the future.
(Image: Gijs Bakker)
The rooms are not arranged chronologically, but around specific themes: Symbol, Magic, Function, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design, Icons and Future.
Accoring to Cappellieri, the museum consciously decides “not to interpret by styles or chronologically as is normally done, but based on the different jewel contexts: from Etruscan, V century BC icons, to the future's 3D printing jewels, from crowns to bijoux, from functional jewels to sculptures”.
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