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MJW PAPER
MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK This Munich Jewellery Week Paper 2020 is our first publication
to join, let’s make the best of it! Last week, with facemasks now
that lives exclusively online.
a defining symbol of the coronavirus outbreak, a jeweller friend suggested decorating them with Swarovski crystals for Munich
In light of the latest headlines, among hundreds of concerned
Jewellery Week – a typical jeweller’s can-do attitude! While the
emails from visitors, it became clear that there were new levels
global situation is indeed very serious and deserves our utmost
of distrust and fear associated with international travel.
attention, putting rhinestones on protective wear might be one way to brighten up a day... or a week!
Due to multiple cancellations, we are now back to about 63 confirmed events, just like when we first started making a map
We hope you enjoy your MJW, whether you will actually walk the
in 2013. With the Week constantly growing, and more and more
streets of Munich, follow @munichjewelleryweek on Instagram,
international visitors flocking to Munich, this year was supposed
or join some of the events that were ‘transplanted’ to other loca-
to be the biggest to date – 120 events. But we have to face the
tions: The National in New Zealand, Galerie Beyond and MAD walk
crisis, and it will surely be a different kind of Munich Jewellery
in Belgium, etc.
Week, more local, than international, less crowded and less noisy. With many gallerists and collectors cancelling their trips, who will
If in Munich, come by at our MJW HQ on Adalbertstrasse 23
be our audience? We will have to wait and see.
for a chat!
While the choice whether or not to travel to Munich, is a respon-
WITH LOVE,
sibility of each individual visitor, for those of you who decided
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MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK PRESS
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