The Archaeological Museum, Carrera del Darro, 43, (34-958) 225 640, has a remarkable collection of pottery, jewelry and architectural fragments from prehistoric to Phoenician and Iberian times.
The Hartman pottery is remarkable in its diversity.
A museum will house Roman artifacts and objects found during the digging, including pottery and a remarkable decorative mask.
Galicia and the Basque region, each with a population of distinct linguistic background, developed in prolonged isolation, the results of which are clearly visible in their exceptional arts: the architecture presents unique features, and the Basques are unusual in their lack of pottery, though they developed remarkable dance costumes.
Their tradition of hand-formed ceramics more or less disappeared when the Egyptians arrived, bringing pottery wheels, but it produced some remarkable objects while it lasted.
Increasing sedentariness is also to be seen in the remarkable bowls and globular jars painstakingly pecked from stone, for pottery was as yet unknown in Mesoamerica.
Companies that go under typically take their museums with them: the Waterford Wedgwood Potteries, for example, was ordered to sell its remarkable collection after the company went bankrupt in 2009.However, the rise of corporate museums says something interesting about collective memory.
What's remarkable about the Japanese ceramics tradition is the voluminous production of vernacular folk pottery over the centuries, simple but often beautiful ware handcrafted in a variety of styles by anonymous farmers, country people and others.
Cavafy had a model for sexual frankness in the Greek Anthology, that remarkable compilation of ancient insults, boasts, epigrams, and erotica, much of it recovered from mummy wrappings and pottery shards.
Don't expect high-style, high-end pottery elegance in this show, but the beauty and animation in some of the objects are remarkable.
