Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to European Decorative Arts & Sculpture. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.
Past and Current Exhibitions
Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers
December 2, 2012 - April 14, 2013The Art of German Stoneware
May 5, 2012 - August 5, 2012To Love, Honor, and Obey? Stories of Italian Renaissance Marriage Chests
July 3, 2010 - July 3, 2011Alessi: Ethical and Radical
November 21, 2010 - April 10, 2011A Royal Passion: Meissen and Asian Porcelain from Augustus the Strong’s Japanese Palace
December 18, 2010 - April 3, 2011Hanging Around: Modern and Contemporary Lighting from the Permanent Collection
July 17, 2010 - October 10, 2010May Your Glass Be Ever Full: Drinking in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe
July 5, 2009 - Summer 2010Marcel Wanders: Daydreams
November 22, 2009 - June 13, 2010A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique
October 24, 2009 - March 14, 2010A Taste for Modern: The Jeanne Rymer Collection of Twentieth-Century Chairs
May 16, 2009 - September 20, 2009Visual Delight: Ornament and Pattern in Modern and Contemporary Design
May 16, 2009 - September 20, 2009Richard Schultz: Five Decades of Design
April 5, 2009 - August 23, 2009Pictured in Blue and White: English Ceramics of the Nineteenth Century
August 31, 2008 - June 14, 2009Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House
November 8, 2008 - April 5, 2009Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present
September 15, 2007 - September 14, 2008Irish Silver
May 5, 2005 - August 31, 2008Turned and Thrown: English Pottery 1660–1820 from Local Collections
March 29, 2008 - July 27, 2008Eighteenth-Century English Silver from the Collection
July 28, 2007 - March 23, 2008Georg Jensen Silversmiths
November 17, 2006 - April 1, 2007Someone’s in the Kitchen: Culinary Design Objects from the Collection
April 22, 2006 - October 22, 2006In Pursuit of Genius: Jean-Antoine Houdon and the Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin
May 13, 2006 - July 30, 2006Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits
November 18, 2005 - April 9, 2006Transformed: Uncommon Materials in Contemporary Design
April 23 - October 9, 2005Florence Knoll Bassett: Defining Modern
November 17, 2004 - April 10, 2005One or Many: Modern Design and Craft from the Collection
April 17, 2004 - October 23, 2004Work in Process: Gluckman Mayner Designs the Perelman Building
November 19, 2003 - April 4, 2004Have a Bite: 20th-Century Flatware from the Collection
April 12, 2003 - October 26, 2003The Light Magic of Ingo Maurer
November 20, 2002 - March 30, 2003Design: Recent Acquisitions
August 10, 2002 - November 3, 2002It's Your Move: Chess Sets from the Collection
May 18, 2002 - July 21, 2002Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection
December 8, 2001 - April 28, 2002Collab Collects: Notable Acquisitions in Design, 1970–2000
November 14, 2001 - April 21, 2002A Most Exquisite Display: European Ceramics at the Centennial Exhibition
July 28, 2001 - October 28, 2001Modern Hits Home: Mid-Century American Decorative Arts
December 9, 2000 - October 22, 2001Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates
June 10, 2001 - August 5, 2001Milton Glaser: Design, Influence and Process
November 15, 2000 - January 21, 2001Just Desserts: An Eighteenth-Century Table Setting
November 23, 1999 - June 18, 2000German Art and Design of the Twentieth Century
March 15, 1999 - October 31, 1999Cool Britannia: Recent British Design Selected by Sir Terence Conran
November 11, 1998 - March 7, 1999From the Sculptor's Studio: Italian Baroque Terracottas from The Hermitage
May 16, 1998 - August 30, 1998Philippe Starck Designs
November 12, 1997 - March 1, 1998Scandinavian Design 1930-1980
March 18, 1997 - October 1, 1997Portraits of Benjamin Franklin
February 15, 1997 - April 20, 1997Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Glass
March 6, 1996 - August 31, 1996Michael Graves: The Architect and the Tea Kettle
October 25, 1995 - February 25, 1996Skill, Care, and Wit: Miscellaneous Objects from Japanese Markets
October 26, 1994 - January 30, 1995Colonial Mexican Pottery, 1650-1750
Summer 1992An Examination of Renaissance Maiolica
February 29, 1992 - May 15, 1992Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jugendstil
September 25, 1988 - November 27, 1988Design 1900-1940: From the Collections
January 31, 1987 - December 10, 1987European Sculpture and Decorative Art: Acquisitions by David DuBon, 1958-85
March 3, 1987 - October 4, 1987African Sculpture from The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
November 23, 1986 - February 8, 1987Design Since 1945
October 16, 1983 - January 8, 1984Nigerian Art from the University Museum
February 21, 1982 - April 18, 1982Treasures of Ancient Nigeria
February 21, 1982 - April 18, 1982Wedgwood and His Contemporaries
May 3, 1980 - September 14, 1980Treasures of Early Irish Art
February 25, 1979 - May 27, 1979Twentieth Century Design: Recent Acquisitions
March 10, 1979 - May 6, 1979The Jeweler's Art: European and American Jewelry, 1840-1910
July 1, 1978 - October 22, 1978Gifts to Mark a Century: An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
February 18, 1977 - March 20, 1977Collab 1974: British Contemporary Design
November 20, 1974 - December 31, 1974
