Sèvres – Cité de la céramique (Sèvres City of Ceramics) is a French national

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located at the Place de la Manufacture,

Sèvres Sèvres (, ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for ...

, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of

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. It was created in January 2010, from the merger of the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres and the

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres The ''Manufacture nationale de Sèvres'' is one of the principal European porcelain factories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740, which moved to Sèvres in 1756. It ...

.Legifrance, ''Décret n° 2009-1643 du 24 décembre 2009 portant création de l'Etablissement public Sèvres - Cité de la céramique''
/ref> The museum is open daily except Tuesday; an admission fee is charged. Access to the museum by public transportation is available from Tramway d'Île-de-France (''Trans Val-de-Seine'') station Musée de Sèvres on Tramway T2, and by

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station

Pont de Sèvres The pont de Sèvres is a bridge above the Seine that links the cities of Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres, in France. The current bridge was put in service in 1963. The bridge is also above the RD 1 and RD 7 roads, and the Île-de-France tramway ...

on Line 9.

History

The museum was inaugurated in 1824 by Alexandre Brongniart, director of the

, becoming the first museum dedicated to fine ceramic arts in the world. Denis-Desire Riocreux, a renowned painter at the manufacture became the director with a goal of collecting and studying fine ceramics from all over the world. Brongniart published his treatise on ceramic art and pottery in 1845. The following year, with Riocreux, he wrote ''Description méthodique du musée céramique de la Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine de Sèvres'', which became the museum's first catalogue. The museum became independent of the factory in 1927 under director Henry-Pierre Fourest, and was attached to the

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in Paris for conservation purposes in 1934. Beginning in 1975, the museum began seeking out modern ceramics, and the exhibition space was expanded with eight new rooms. The main floor exhibits ceramics from the East and West, from its origins to the sixteenth century. The first floor of the museum is dedicated to European earthenware and porcelain from the sixteenth century to the present. The museum holds more than 50,000 objects, of which about 5,000 were manufactured by Sèvres. In addition to traditional fine European and Asian ceramics, has an especially noteworthy collection of ceramics created by leading 19th- and 20th-century contemporary artists.

Sevres Outdoors

Sevres Outdoors was an international art project: an exhibition of outdoor

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, in the historical gardens of museum.

The 2014 Edition

Organized by CERA, the first edition of Sevres Outdoors was held from June 30 to September 31 in 2014 with 30 artworks from 25 Parisian galleries.

The 2015 Edition

The second edition gathers 26 artists from 23 galleries and opens to the public from May 20 to October 25 in 2015.

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