Éclats messins. Vever, joailliers d’exception, 200 ans de création — Musée de La Cour d’Or, Metz, 12 November 2026 – 18 May 2027

The Musée de La Cour d’Or in Metz shows Éclats messins. Vever, joailliers d’exception, 200 ans de création from 12 November 2026 to 18 May 2027. The subject is a jewellery house born in Metz in 1821 that became, three generations later, one of the great names of Art Nouveau.

The story begins with Pierre-Paul Vever, who opened a jeweller’s shop in the city in 1821. His son Ernest and his grandson Henri carried the name forward, and the exhibition follows the house to the years 1925-1930, the close of its most brilliant period, by then Parisian. The route is built in three parts: the Messine origins of the house; Henri Vever between Paris and Art Nouveau; and renown, success and inheritance. It closes on the seventh generation, whose contemporary pieces take their roots from the Art Nouveau work that came before.

Nearly 200 objects are shown: jewels, preparatory drawings, archive material and works of art, with loans that trace how far the house reached in Europe and in the United States. Preparatory drawings are worth the detour on their own, since a jewel of this period was designed on paper as carefully as a building, and the paper usually does not survive the commission.

Admission to the museum is free for everyone. It opens from 10am to 12.45pm and from 2pm to 6pm every day except Tuesday, and closes on 24, 25, 26 and 31 December, on 1 January, on Good Friday and on 1 May. Guided visits are available on request. The address is 2 rue du Haut Poirier, 57000 Metz.

Dates, opening hours and the press material are on the organiser’s page linked below.