Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia

The museum holds what is considered the world's most complete collection of porcelain and majolica from the Manifattura di Doccia, founded in 1735 on the outskirts of Florence and later known as Richard-Ginori. Its roughly 8,000 works, together with sculptural models in wax, terracotta and plaster and the engraved copper plates used for decoration, trace almost three centuries of ceramic production, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Considered one of the oldest ceramics museums in Europe, it is also a museum of labour and place, bearing witness to Sesto Fiorentino's industrial history. Closed since 2014 after the owning company's bankruptcy and now undergoing restoration, it remains an essential reference point for the history of Italian porcelain.