During our trip to Amsterdam to see Marina Abramovic's retrospective and re-performed pieces (by artists from Abramovic institute, yes, the piece was exhibited were you can squeeze through two nudes between columns) we took a two hour train trip to Leeuwarden where there is a ceramic museum in a place that has previously served as a castle for the Princess of Orange.
The permanent collection is vast and the mini temporary exhibitions were very interesting.
Even though the permanent collection wasn't the main reason to visit the lovely town of Leeuwarden: they had put together an exhibition of Augustus the Strong and Madame Pompadour's ceramics with loans from Dresden and Sèvres. I have been a frequent visitor in Sèvres during my Paris trips but I have never seen many of the exhibited pieces! And even if I have been a visitor in Sèvres archives I haven't been able to touch the notebook which they were showcasing. During the first three months they showed the formula for pâte tendre (soft paste porcelain) and apparently, we visited the museum during the last three, since they were showcasing it on the pages where there's secrets (tiny hand writing in French) about pigments/stains. In Sèvres I had an opportunity to flip through notes from the 18th century. And the news form the exhibition (about the note book too) were form The French Porcelain Society's Livingroom Lecture, as a member you will receive the latest news.
The exhibition is on in Ceramic Museum of Princessehof in Leeuwarden in The Neatherlands until September 1st 2024.