The Museum of the Jewel of Vicenza is renewed for the biennium of life, new pieces, new curators, same nice offer.
The Museum of the Jewel of Vicenza from the beginning it is presented as a kind of chameleon: the exhibits are top quality but inevitably change over time. Every two years, the jewels return to their respective owners and are replaced by others. The second cycle is just beginning: the 2017-2018 edition was inaugurated in the presence of ten new international curators. And, in addition to new jewelery, there is also an institutional innovation: the Museum, wanted with strength and perseverance by Matteo Marzotto, until now president of the Vicenza Fair, it’s now headed by the new company born from the union between the Vicenza structure and Rimini, namely Italian Exhibition Group. That’s why the start for the new cycle was given by Lorenzo Cagnoni, President of Italian Exhibition Group. Marzotto remains, however, as vice president of the new company: “From the first day of public opening of the Jewel Museum has proved a winning idea. Authoritative center of gravity of the cultural universe story goldsmith and jewelery, innovation and a refined search” he explained. “Deeply rooted and logistically in Vicenza, one of the world capitals of the jewel, expresses with his unique personality high international vocation; particularly appreciated not only for the quality of guardianship, but also to the origin and excellence of the exhibits, the many Italian and foreign visitors welcomed, for the unusual museum suitable for all audiences. A global profile that will be further enhanced thanks to the new exhibition and cooperation of the new curators in the next biennium 2017-18.”
The news
The museum space is over 410 square meters and is edited and directed by Alba Cappellieri, a professor of Jewellery Design at the Politecnico di Milano. It now features a new selection with 400 jewels, excellence and prestige, selected according to the sensitivity of the new curators of internationally involved, as Glenn Adamson, director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Nicolas Bos, President & Ceo of Van Cleef & Arpels, the art critic and collector Helen Drutt English, the anthropologist Cristina Del Mare, the art historian Alessandra Poss, Stefano Piaggi, Director of Archive Anna Piaggi, Marco Romanelli, architect and designer, the art historian and author Paola Venturelli, the award-winning designer Odo Fioravanti.
The museum
First in Italy and one of the few in the world dedicated exclusively to the jewel located inside the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza, historic building from the XVI century, Unesco World Heritage Site since 1994, the Jewel Museum in two years after its opening, December 24, 2014, recorded 34,000 visitors.
