Collection

 

Lose track of time as you wander around the collection with treasures at every turn. With thousands of objects from silver and metals, fashion and textiles, furniture, ceramics, sculpture and paintings to capture your imagination.

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Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667 – 1740)

Who was the person in this painting?

Silver Swan

Not An Ugly Duckling…

Find out the story of the mesmerising Silver Swan in its dedicated gallery.

The Blackborne Lace Collection

One of the largest and most important lace collections in the world.

HIGHLIGHTS

Statue of Sappho

Sappho, Ancient Greek writer of lyric poetry, 1848

This stylishly elegant silver statue by James Pradier presents the poetess as a brooding lover.

EMPRESS EUGÉNIE’S BODICE

French purple velvet silk and lace bodice worn by Napoleon III's wife in the 1860s.

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