Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum
No. 1, Zijing Avenue, Changjiang District, Jingdezhen City
- The Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum, formerly known as the Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum, is the first large-scale ceramic art museum in China dedicated to this theme. The museum's exhibits are divided into "History Section," "New China Section," and special exhibition halls.
- Founded in 1954, the museum houses over 20,000 pieces of ceramic masterpieces from the Neolithic pottery period and various historical periods since the Han and Tang dynasties, including over 500 pieces of national precious cultural relics, covering representative varieties from the millennium-long history of Jingdezhen porcelain making. In addition, it also collects many foreign and other local porcelains, as well as metal, stone, jade artifacts, calligraphy, and paintings. In particular, the fine modern and contemporary Jingdezhen ceramics are unique to the museum.
- The museum's exhibits include: celadon and white porcelain from the Five Dynasties; Qingbai porcelain from the Song Dynasty; blue-and-white porcelain, "luanbai" (egg-white) porcelain, and underglaze red porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty; blue-and-white porcelain, wucai (five-color) porcelain, doucai porcelain, and various color glaze porcelains from the Ming Dynasty; and dozens of types of fine ceramics from the Qing Dynasty.
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