Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, National ceramics museum in Sèvres, France

Sèvres - Cité de la céramique is a national ceramics museum at the Place de la Manufacture in Sèvres, created in January 2010 by merging the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres with the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Its pale stone facade carries a round clock with Roman numerals in a curved pediment, flanked by two sculpted female figures holding urns, above a panel inscribed "MVSEE NATIONAL DE CERAMIQVE". The collection numbers more than 50,000 objects, about 5,000 of them made by Sèvres.

The porcelain factory was founded in 1740 and moved to Sèvres in 1756, where it supplied French royalty and nobility. In 1759 it became state property and grew into France's leading ceramics producer.

The museum's name comes from the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, the porcelain works founded in 1740 and state property from 1759. Since 2011 the site has run a space devoted to contemporary creation, and the Cité has produced new work with artists such as Ettore Sottsass, Zao Wou-ki, Johan Creten and Barthélémy Toguo. The carved facade reads "Musée national de Céramique".

The museum is open daily except Tuesday, and an admission fee is charged. It stands at the Place de la Manufacture in Sèvres; reach it by Tramway T2 at the Musée de Sèvres stop or by Métro Line 9 at Pont de Sèvres. The main floor holds ceramics from East and West up to the 16th century, the first floor European earthenware and porcelain from the 16th century onward.

The museum began in 1824 when Alexandre Brongniart, director of the Sèvres factory, opened it with painter Denis-Désiré Riocreux; it is considered the first museum devoted to fine ceramics. Of the more than 50,000 objects, about 5,000 were made at Sèvres itself.