Iksan Jewelry Museum

The Iksan Jewelry Museum is a museum in Iksan, South Korea. It was built to provide cultural space related to Baekje relics for tourists and educate them about jewelry and knowledge of it including symbols.

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Jewellery

Jewellery or jewelry (/ˈdʒuːᵊlᵊri/) consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes, and the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest type of archaeological artefact – with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery. The basic forms of jewellery vary between cultures but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common. Historically, the most widespread influence on jewellery in terms of design and style have come from Asia.

Museum

A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public.

Some of the most attended museums include the Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the British Museum in London, the National Gallery in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums and children's museums.

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum

Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece, created by the renowned Greek jewellery designer Ilias Lalaounis. It comprises 24 collections of a total of over 4,000 jewels and small ornaments dedicated to the history and art of jewellery making. The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces designed in the period 1940-1992.

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Coordinates: 37°58′8.9″N 23°43′36.12″E / 37.969139°N 23.7267000°E / 37.969139; 23.7267000

Ilias Lalaounis

Ilias Lalaounis (1920- 2013) was a Greek goldsmith, jeweler and jewel designer.

Early life

Ilias Lalaounis was born on October 4, 1920 in Athens, Greece. His family originated from Delphi. He was a fourth generation jeweller. He graduated from the University of Athens, where he studied Political Science and the Law.

Career

Lalaouinis started his career as a jeweller by working for his uncle. In 1940, he took over the administration of his uncle’s firm "Zolotas" which he managed until 1968. All jewelry is designed by him. In 1968, he made his own firm named "Ilias Lalaounis- Greek Gold S.A.". A year later, in 1969, he founded his own firm "Greek Gold- Ilias Lalaounis S.A.". From 1957 until 2001, he counted more than 18.000 jewelry and micro-sculptures from 50 collections. Over the years, he opened more than 30 shops around the whole world. In 1986, he became the only jeweller ever to be inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

His work was inspired by ancient Greece. In 1994, he founded the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, located under the Acropolis rock in Athens. The Museum houses more than 4.000 exhibits, jewels and micro-sculptures. The museum building includes also a prototype jewelry workshop, coffee shop and the museum offices.