Ariana Museum - Swiss museum of ceramics and glass Geneva

 

12 centuries of history of ceramics, 7 centuries of glassmaking: the Ariana Museum reflects both exposing more than 20,000 objects from Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East and Far East. The Museum is located in a park on Lake Geneva.

The Museum of Ceramics and Glass Ariana is the work of Gustave Revilliod. Between 1877 and 1884 he built a building, both neoclassical and neo-baroque near the Palais des Nations, the European headquarters of the United Nations. He gave him the name of his mother, Ariana, and made a gift to the city of Geneva with other properties and elements of heritage.

Today, the Ariana Museum, with its 20,000 ceramics and glass covering 12 centuries, is known and appreciated far beyond the country's borders. It is also the headquarters of the International Academy of Ceramics, which has about 400 members worldwide. 

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