“Unsurpassed Wedgwood” as part of the cross Year of Culture of Great Britain and Russia 2014 in Moscow

November 14, 2014 in the halls of the State Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts (Moscow), opens a large-scale exhibition of works by the legendary British firm Wedgwood. The exhibition is part of the official program of the Year of cross-culture of Great Britain and Russia in 2014. In the White Hall of the museum of the area of more than six hundred square meters will be featured works from the collection of the Museum of the Lady Lever (Liverpool), previously not leaving the country, as well as unique and rare artifacts from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, from Palaces, Museums of Moscow and the suburbs of St. Petersburg (Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, estates Ostankino, Kuskovo, Kolomenskoye). The idea of the exhibition is to illustrate the impressive experience of Josiah Wedgwood of the importance of innovative thinking in the fields of art, science and business. Visitors of the exhibition will be able to see the original designs of impeccable taste, high quality, elegance and style of works of Wedgwood Company, which will be shown in Moscow for the first time.    

Visitors of the exhibition will be presented a rich accompanying program: lectures and round tables, film screenings of Wedgwood, its era and the fate; readings of literary works of English literature, popular in the XVIII century; master classes; representation of traditions of Russian and English tea parties; tutorial quiz.

The exhibition will be open on November 15 and will run until February 1, 2015.