until Wed. December 31 2025
Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln
T : +49 (0) 221 221 267 14
An der Rechtschule 7 50667 Köln
50667 Cologne
Germany
With The Fascination of Jewellery, the Cologne Museum of Applied Arts will be opening the first comprehensive exhibition of its outstanding jewellery collection. Featuring some 370 selected exhibits, seven millennia of jewellery art will be presented in all their various facets, ranging from ancient oriental gems from the 5th millennium BC through to contemporary jewellery. The concept developed by the curators Petra Hesse and Lena Hoppe envisages a combination of chronological as well as cross-epochal and cross-cultural content such as symbolism, memory, luxury, conventions, gender and identity. The different subjects allow diverse and individual approaches to the field of jewellery art. By way of examples, they provide an introduction to the many facets of jewellery design and offer insights into the social, societal, emotional and symbolic aspects of jewellery.
