The Heard Museum art collection concentrates on the lives of Native peoples and consists of more than 40,000 objects. The two focal areas of the collection are comprehensive cultural collections from the Greater Southwest and contemporary native fine art from North America.

With a focus on contemporary art made from craft media and processes, Craft Contemporary presents dynamic exhibitions by established and emerging artists and designers who are often underrepresented in larger art institutions.

Permanent collections include the Boardman Collection of Contemporary Jewelry and Modern Mexican and Peruvian Silver.

Mingei International Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding of art of the people (mingei) from all eras and cultures of the world. The Museum collects, conserves and exhibits artifacts of daily life – by unknown craftspeople of ancient times, from traditional cultures of past and present, and by historical and contemporary designers.

A museum and store showcasing African fine craft and beads from across the world.

Taboo Studio displays and sells original jewelry created by contemporary jewelers and metalsmiths.

The Flagler Museum hosts exhibitions exploring the art and culture of Gilded Age America, highlighting art and artists as well as topics and issues of the time.

One of the world's greatest art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe.

The Walters’s wide-ranging collections include Art Deco and Ancient Greek jewelry and metal sculpture.

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum focuses on art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Fuller Craft Museum aspires to be the nexus of contemporary craft. Embodied by creative aesthetic, concept expression, and cultural meaning, we will serve as a public resource to chronicle, interpret, and present craft in its many forms.

Mobilia Gallery features 20th and 21st century decorative and fine art, including sculpture, ceramics, paintings, glass, textiles, studio furniture and jewelry. The gallery presents innovative, curated exhibits showcasing American and international artists with lectures, symposiums, traveling exhibitions, and catalogs and books which provide a deeper understanding of the arts and the creative process.

MFA has a significant jewelry collection, and the first curator of jewelry in an American art museum was appointed at the MFA in 2006.

Cranbrook Art Museum’s collections document outstanding examples of art, architecture, craft, and design from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a special interest in recognizing the history and innovations of Cranbrook and the achievements of its artists.

The Newark Museum of Art is one of the few museums in the country to actively collect jewelry, and its extensive holdings have their roots in the city of Newark's role as the center of American fine jewelry industry from the 1850s to the 1950s.

The mission of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology is to serve as a center of stewardship, knowledge, and understanding of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual achievements of the diverse peoples of the Native Southwest.

The decorative arts collection reflects changes in domestic life and design from the seventeenth century to the present. Included are materials ranging from furniture, silver, glass, and ceramics to period rooms and textiles. Although the collections include some European material, their greatest strength is in American objects.

The Met was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction.”

MAD champions contemporary makers across creative fields, presenting artists, designers, and artisans who apply the highest level of ingenuity and skill to their work.

The Mint Museum collects international contemporary decorative arts in the areas of glass, fiber art, metal, studio jewelry, design, studio furniture, wood art, and clay.

The Kent State Museum contains important collections of fashion and decorative arts. Its eight galleries feature changing exhibitions of work by many of the world's great artists and designers.

As the only institution of its kind in North America, and one of only a few in the world devoted exclusively to metalwork, the Metal Museum leads the way in the celebration, recognition, and promotion of the field of fine metalwork.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to advancing education about the process, product and history of craft.

RAM’s metal collection focuses on American studio jewelry rather than holloware and architectural metalwork. The museum has recently committed to establishing a permanent collection of polymer jewelry, beads and sculptural objects.

Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery represents the work of artists from the US and abroad, showcasing an extensive collection of contemporary jewelry art made with precious and non-precious metals, as well as nontraditional materials.

Tacoma Art Museum holds an important collection of studio art jewelry by Northwest artists, spanning from the post-World War II era to the present. The collection is focused on Northwest jewelry artists, but includes representative works by national and international artists deemed important to providing a context for the work of the region.

The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere.

Our collection contains more than 500,000 objects collected over 135 years. Globally recognised for its breadth and diversity, our collection is Australia’s largest and most significant collection of science, technological and design ingenuity.

Design Museum Gent collects Belgian design in an international context. The highlights of our collection demonstrate the relevance of good design throughout the centuries and its impact on our lives.

The Aga Khan Museum presents and collects art from historically significant Muslim civilizations as well as contemporary Muslim communities and diasporas around the world.

With over one million objects in its collection, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is the largest museum of decorative arts in continental Europe.

The Bröhan-Museum is Berlin’s museum for art nouveau, art deco, and functionalism.

The Völklinger Hütte is the world's only fully preserved ironworks from the heyday of industrialisation, and is also the first industrial monument of this era to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Jewelry museum in Germany’s traditional jewelry manufacturing center.

The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MDAD) has seven collections: textile art, ceramics, metal, leather, decorative wood and glass art as well as a design collection.

The largest art museum in the world with an extensive armor collection.

The British Museum is the first national public museum of the world and holds eight million objects.

Design is a continually evolving subject. The Design Museum offers opportunities to explore the present and future of design through a programme of temporary exhibitions and displays.

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.