Museums that soley exhibit Ceramic Art
AmocaIt is the mission of the American Museum of Ceramic Art to educate by presenting, collecting and preserving significant ceramic achievements of the world's cultures from ancient times to the present and through aesthetic and technical study to develop a deeper understanding of cultural, values and traditions.
The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art (NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University) Alfred houses nearly 8,000 ceramic and glass objects, ranging from small pottery shards recovered from ancient civilizations to contemporary sculpture and installation pieces to advanced ceramics reflecting the cutting edge of ceramic technology
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Ceramics and Glass (Smithsonian Institute) National Museum of American History Hall of Ceramics, A survey of fine ceramics and the history of American ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Exhibitions of Asian pottery and porcelain, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: Comprehensive ceramics collection ranges from ancient Greek vessels and pre-Colombian pottery to 20th-century table wares. Notable in the glass collection are Syrian and Roman pieces, and Irish cut-glass table wares from the early 19th century. Ceramic Arts at the National Museum of African Art Reading Lists: American Art Pottery, Ceramics of the United States, English and American Historical Subjects on Pottery, Porcelain and Pottery Marks, Hall of Ceramics at the National, Museum of American History.
Decorative Arts (National Gallery of Art) A site where you can look at Chinese Porcelains, French Renaissance Ceramics, and Italian Renaissance Ceramics.
Pottery from the Index of American Design (National Gallery of Art) Pottery making was among the earliest of American crafts. Everything needed for the production of pottery was present in America -- clay, abundant wood for firing kilns, and capable craftsmen. This program provides a discussion of examples selected from among the watercolor renderings in the Index of American Design; the images are intended to illustrate the great variety of pottery made in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Permenant Collections at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is a museum of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1683, it is one of the oldest public museums in the world. The Pot Web is part of the Ashmolean Museum which is launching an ambitious and pioneering project for the twenty-first century -- PotWeb -- to create an online catalogue of the ceramic collections. From the Palaeolithic to Victorian periods; from Egypt and the Middle East to Europe and Britain. Or go to the Ashmolean Museums Islamic Ceramics online collection.
Museums with collections of Ceramic Art or commonly exhibit Ceramic Art - but lack online exhibtions.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Other Ceramic Art Related Museum Resources
Museums in Germany Verzeichnis der Keramikmuseen - Museums with ceramic objects/collections gives addresses no links.
Museums in Switzerland (Kara Art)
Search for Museums (Pottery Making Illustrated) Clay Links by Barbabra Coultry
