National Ceramic Museum is housed in a stunning baroque building, the Palacio del Marques de Dos Aguas. The cover was made in the seventeenth century by the sculptor Ignacio Vergara Valencian painter projects according to Hipolito Rovira, is made of alabaster and was covered in paint until the nineteenth century.

The museum brings together more than 5,000 pieces of pottery, much of which are of Manuel Gonzalez Marti, great passion for ceramics. The pottery of Paterna (6 km north of Valencia), the oldest in the province, dates from the thirteenth century. You can be green and white, with brown lines and white or blue manganese, in the fourteenth century his production fell to the Manises, but prized for its luster technique that, starting from the seventeenth century a decadent period, partly for lack of inspiration, in part because of the importance charged by the Talavera ceramic. In the eighteenth century resurgent regional production Manises (Italian-inspired pieces) and especially in the newly created factory Alcora (imitation of French Moustiers and Sevres).

The first floor of the Museo Nacional de Ceramica is devoted to ceramic and porcelain Alcora Chinese and Japanese. There are also socarrat tiles were used in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to take the spaces between the roof beams. A room on the second floor contains ceramics by Picasso and other kitchen covered with tiles Valencia Manises. There is also a room dedicated to the production of Paterna and another luster ceramics, such as Manises. On the ground floor, showcasing the chariot of the Marques de Dos Aguas.

Visit 10:00 to 14:00 hours and 16:00 to 20:00 from Tuesday to Saturday

On Sundays and holidays from 10:00 to 14:00

Closed on Mondays, January 1, May 1, 24, 25 and 31 December.

In summer the National Ceramic Museum is open every Saturday of the months June, July, August and September from 20:00 to 24:00.

The price of tickets to the National Museum of Ceramics is 3 euros, reduced ticket price is 1.50 euros and 25 euros annual card.

The museum opens its doors for free on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, the 18th of May, 18 April, 12 October and 6 December.

National Ceramic Museum Valencia is in the street Poeta Querol, number 2 in Valencia.

The museum phone number is 963-516-392.

The museum can be reached by subway lines 3 and 5, by bus lines 31, 70, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 27, 70, 71, as well as those who come to City Hall