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Creating Japanese Jewellery: Personal Expression and Memory

Creating Japanese Jewellery: Personal Expression and Memory Date: Saturday 24 October 2026 to Sunday 17 January 2027 Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK), 26-1 Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8344, Japan A major exhibition in Kyoto explores post-war jewellery as a form of artistic expression from a Japanese perspective, including around 20 loans from the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim. Curated by MoMAK, the exhibition brings together around 350 works by post-war jewellery artists and looks at how jewellery became a medium for personal expression in Japan. For a long time, wearing jewellery was fairly unusual in Japan. An association of

From Function to Fantasy: The Brooch

From Function to Fantasy: The Brooch 1st to 12th October 2025, 10:30am to 5pm Wartski, 60 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1LE The exhibition will span the Bronze Age to the Contemporary, and include loans from museums including the V&A, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Musée Lalique and the Schmuckmuseum, as well as the National Trust, English Heritage and the Goldsmiths’ Company. The majority of the works will be drawn from private collections. Brooches of wide ranging-inspirations and themes will be featured, as will Royal, French Imperial and Russian Imperial examples. From Sarah Bernhardt to Suffragettes, Sir Edward Burne-Jones to Salvador

21st International Silver Triennial

21 International Silver Triennial In dialogue with highlights from Pforzheim’s jewellery museum made of silver and diamonds 17 May 2026 through 6 January 2027 Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim Opens on International Museum Day, Sunday, 17 May, 3 p.m. Whether bowls or a teapot, vases or a lantern – the spectrum of objects submitted for the 21st International Silver Triennial is wide. Pforzheim’s Jewellery Museum presents the creations selected from this competition for the promotion of the work of contemporary silversmiths, which has been organised by the Association for the Promotion of the Goldsmith’s Art and the German Goldsmiths’ House in Hanau