On November 19, 2009 the Museum opened its new Wedgwood gallery featuring objects from the Buten Wedgwood Collection.  The Collection, which came to the Museum in the fall of 2008, includes more than 8,000 objects dating from the inception of the Wedgwood factory in 1759 through the mid-twentieth century. 

About 200 objects made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are installed in the new gallery adjacent to the Beeson Wedgwood Collection on the Museum’s third floor.  Additionally, a group of pieces dating from the mid-twentieth century will be presented in the hallway immediately outside the gallery.  This new installation will build upon the Museum’s fabulous gallery of eighteenth-century Wedgwood and will further the story of the Wedgwood factory, undoubtedly one of the most important ceramics manufactories ever.