The Wedgwood Museum Collections

The Museum's collections illustrate the living tradition of Wedgwood through three centuries.
The Trust’s holding is of considerable significance due to the survival of 75,000 manuscripts including pattern and shape records, together with the largest accumulation of Wedgwood ceramic and related manufacturing objects in Britain. The collections also contain a small but important group of paintings mostly relating to the Wedgwood family and the factories.  The idea for a museum was conceived by the founder Josiah Wedgwood who set aside many of his own trials, experiments and important pieces for posterity. He was a potter, pioneer and philanthropist, whose interests embraced a very wide range of subjects in both the arts and sciences.