Ongoing Exhibitions of Ornamental Turning

Ongoing Exhibitions of Ornamental Turning

Exhibitions of ornamental turning appear in public galleries and museums throughout the world today. Below are many of those with ongoing display of OT turnings and tools.

Public museums with OT items

• Bayerisches National Museum (Munich, Germany)
• Elfenbein Museum Erbach (Erbach, Germany)
• Grünes Gewölbe (Dresden, Germany)
• Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
• Musée du Conservatoire des Artes et Métiers (Paris, France)
• Galleria Regionale della Sicilia (Sicily, Italy)
• Museo Degli Argenti of the Pitti Palace (Florence, Italy)
• Rosenborg Castle (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Science Museum (London, England)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York)
• Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California) [Heiden Ivory]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Center for Art In Wood (Philadelphia, PA)
• The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, HI)

House of Fabergé collections

• Armoury Museum (Moscow, Russia)
• Fabergé Museum in the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).
• Fersman Mineralogical Museum (Moscow, Russia)
• Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II (London, England).
• Liechtenstein National Museum - Treasure Chamber (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)
• Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens (Washington, DC)
• Hillwood, Estate, Museum & Gardens (Washington, DC)
• Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH)
• New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA) – Eighty-two Fabergé objects.
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
• Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)
• Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Public museums with OT machines

• Science Museum (South Kensington, London, UK) – Hayes Annex machine tool collection houses various items including a Holtzapffel rosette forming machine.
• Science Museum reserve collection at Blythe House (West Kensington, London, UK) – Numerous rose engine and ornamental turning lathes. Collection moved
• Birmingham Museum Collection Centre (Birmingham, UK) – Collection of rose engine, straightline engine, engraving machines, medallion and ornamental lathes. (By appointment only.)
• Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Birmingham, UK) – Various items related to the city's manufacturing history, such as early wooden treadle lathes.
• The Hermitage (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – Eleven lathes of Peter the Great (1682-1725).
• Lynn Historical Woodworking Trust (Ashburton, New Zealand) – Eleven lathes dating from 1804 including six Holtzapffel, two Gill, one Evans, one Davies, one Bower rose engine.