A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, usually ceramic art. Its collections may also include glass and enamel, but typically concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more general museum covering all of the arts, or just the decorative arts. However, there are a number of specialized ceramics museums, with some focusing on the ceramics of just one country, region or manufacturer. Others have international collections, which may be centered on ceramics from Europe or East Asia or have a more global emphasis. Outstanding major ceramics collections in general museums include The Palace Museum, Beijing, with 340,000 pieces, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei city, Taiwan (25,000 pieces); both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum (over 75,000 pieces, mostly after 1400 CE) and British Museum (mostly before 1400 CE) have very strong international collections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC (12,000, all East Asian) have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States. The Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, New York, has more than 45,000 glass objects. Specialist museums Many of the historic ceramics manufacturers have museums at or very near their factories, sometimes owned by the company, sometimes independent institutions. Among the more important ones, with large collections, covered in the articles on the concern, are: Meissen porcelain, Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Doccia porcelain, Royal Worcester, Wedgwood (now independent), Royal Crown Derby and Herend Porcelain. Some other specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate): Australia National Museum of Australian Pottery, Holbrook, New South Wales – Australian domestic pottery, 1500 pieces Belgium Musée de la Céramique, Andenne, Wallonia – tells you all about the famous ceramic from the city of Andenne Brazil Museu A CASA, São Paulo, São Paulo. Oficina de Cerâmica Francisco Brennand, Recife, Pernambuco. 2000 pieces Museu Udo Knoff de Azulejaria e Cerâmica, Salvador, Bahia. 1200 pieces Canada Gardiner Museum, Toronto, with 3,000 pieces. Medalta in the Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 53,000. China FLICAM, near Xi'an is a museum for international contemporary ceramics Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery, 38,000 Chinese archaeological finds Mumingtang Ancient Porcelain Museum, Beijing Sihai Teapot Museum, a museum dedicated to teapots in Shanghai.