Vicenza's Museo Del Gioiello Inaugurates Its Second Edition

Last December, Museo del Gioiello inaugurated the start of the second edition (2017-2018) with ten new international curators in attendance. The first in Italy and one of only a few in the world exclusively dedicated to jewellery, located inside Vicenza’s Basilica Palladiana, a 16th century historical building listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994, the Museo del Gioiello jewellery museum has clocked up 34,000 visitors since its opening on 24th December 2014. A project, devised and launched by Fiera di Vicenza, it is managed by Italian Exhibition Group Spa (IEG), the new trade show company generated by the merger between Rimini Fiera and Fiera di Vicenza in partnership with Vicenza Council.

 

Lorenzo Cagnoni, president of Italian Exhibition Group Spa, said, “Vicenza’s Museo del Gioiello is a unique project in the constellation of Italian museums and represents an original alliance between manufacture and culture. Their integration is an ever-increasing asset for promoting territories and trade show activities, an element that also sums up Italian Exhibition Group’s vision. Inheriting the splendid job that Fiera di Vicenza has done, our company will continue to develop this project, together with Vicenza Council’s valuable collaboration, and starting with this new and extremely fascinating biennial exhibition.”

The new display, which will be available for viewing over the next two years, will, just as the previous exhibition did, continue to provide an innovative trip through the semantic complexity of jewellery in all its meanings connected to time, culture and taste, summarising the history of mankind from an extremely heterogeneous point of view.