An enriching journey in the world of earthenware

Name: An enriching journey in the world of earthenware
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la Faïence - Quimper

The visit of the Earthenware Museum will be an opportunity for you to undertake an enriching journey in the world of earthenware, this great artisanal and industrial tradition.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Registration

Several formats available:

Free visit
Saturday and Sunday/ 10am-6pm
The visit of the Earthenware Museum will be an opportunity for you to undertake an enriching journey in the world of earthenware, this great artisanal and industrial tradition.
*Guided Tours - The Wonders of Porquier-Beau Earthenware
Saturday/ 11h, 14h30 and 15h30 - Sunday/ 11h and 14h30
It’s time for the first time! This year, the museum unveils the watercolours of the Porquier-Beau manufacture. Founded in 1773 by a worker of the Grande Maison HB, the factory joined forces around 1875 with the painter Alfred Beau. This collaboration between an artist and a Quimper pottery lasted more than fifteen years. It brought a new breath to the manufacture’s productions, a success that led the factory to multiply forms and decorations.
e-reservation - Visit with the team; Duration: 30 minutes
*Workshops No Luck!
Saturday and Sunday/ 10am, 2pm and 4pm
Decorate shards of Henriot bowls and leave with your creation! Afraid of lacking inspiration? We put at your disposal the plates of our leading artists to accompany you!
e-reservation - Duration: 1h

About the location

Musée de la Faïence - Quimper

14, rue Bouquet, 29000, Quimper

Finistère
Bretagne

Rare are the cities whose name is linked to an art, a passion. Quimper has the chance to appear among them. Associated with the world of earthenware for more than three hundred years, Quimper now has a museum worthy of this great craft and industrial tradition. The Museum of Earthenware will be an opportunity for you to undertake a rewarding journey through the centuries. An exhibition of five hundred pieces, some of which are unique, is regularly renewed thanks to a collection of more than two thousand works, compositions of religious, historical inspiration, scenes of daily life or abstract drawings, frozen in this noble and beautiful material.