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- Herend-film
To start your visit to the Porcelanium, you can watch a film showing the captivating history of Herend porcelain from 1826 up to now, in which a myth becomes known all over the world. - Porcelain-making behind the scenes
After watching the film on Herend, our guides will show visitors round the Minimanufactory. It is the scaled-down version of the original Manufactory, home to all the genuine, mainstream knowledge about the craftsmanship of porcelain manufacturing. - Fabrication
Feel like holding a piece of raw porcelain mass and invoking your hidden artistic ambitions? - Painter's course
You might be one with hidden artistic ambitions, for we are all born with a flair for creation. To be creative and active is what we want, a sign that we are here to be part of it all.
We raise the veil from the jealously guarded secrets
After viewing the Herend film, our local guide will escort our visitors through the Mini Manufactory. This is a miniature copy of the manufactory, a home of ancient knowledge. This is where all that was seen and heard in the film comes to life. This is where you can witness how heavy mass becomes light, fragile porcelain, how nimble fingers shape, decorate and paint the material that is becoming a living thing.
"Talent without knowledge cannot make anyone a perfect artist." Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We can follow every facet of the birth of Herend porcelain in the Mini Manufactory: we can look at the work performed on the pottery wheel, the making of a rose, basket weaving, the painting of porcelain with special brushes, and artistic decoration.
Here is our final secret: the harmony of talent and knowledge.
There, on site, as we are seeing the masters, it becomes apparent what skill and patience is required for the hard, yet beautiful profession of porcelain making. What we experience here is needed most for us to evaluate and appreciate the value and the craftsmanship of a porcelain object that we buy or receive as a gift.
“A work’s true worth can only be expressed by the work itself; others can only talk about it.”
Until we can verify the truth of this statement in person in the Porcelanium, let us inspect the process of porcelain making on the Technology page, which depicts each phase of porcelain making in a spectacular fashion, as well as on the Herend Club Herend Herald / More Herend / Technology page, where one can find a professional, detailed description of porcelain manufacturing.
