The exhibition Artifices instables, Stories of ceramics at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco presents a journey through inventions and experiments highlighting the diversity of shapes and decorations of ceramics, as well as its production processes. These different stages of production - the selection and preparation of clay, the shaping, the finishing, the decoration, the cooking and the enamelling - reveal, also, the « recipes » and the almost alchemic preparations which vary from one creator/inventor to the other.