Permanent collection
From 12 December 2025
Murano, Glass Museum

Curated by
Chiara Squarcina
Mauro Stocco

The exhibition, planned to become a permanent collection as part of the museum’s renewed layout, will enhance the value of the rich and varied 19th-century collection of the Museo del Vetro in Murano, exhibiting it for the first time in its entirety. It will also draw public attention to the world’s most complete and important glass museum. 

Visitors will be able to retrace the troubled and fascinating vicissitudes of Murano glass production in the 19th century, from the crisis caused by the fall of the Republic of Venice (1797) to the rebirth of the art and its full development in the second half of the 19th century, thanks to craftworkers and entrepreneurs who used their skills to revive the island’s glorious past. 

All through the first half of the 19th century, the economy of Venice underwent a serious crisis in industry and commerce. The glass sector was one of the worst hit, and the production of art glass almost completely ceased, partly due to the market’s preference for glass styles from other European countries, such as Bohemia and England. The first signs of a renewed interest in Venetian glass and a resumption of the creation of artistic blown glass came in the middle of the 19th century. 

An important part was played by the recovery of rare qualities of glass materials and above all traditional glassmaking techniques, such as Renaissance filigree, successfully revived by Domenico Bussolin in 1838 and a few years later by Pietro Bigaglia. Many of these artefacts were donated by Bigaglia himself to the museum in 1861. Lorenzo Radi worked on recovering coloured gold leaf pastes for mosaics, and also gave a new lease of life to chalcedony glass, perfected in 1856. In 1854 Fratelli Toso was founded, eventually to become one of the most renowned glassworks on the Murano art scene of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1859 the lawyer Antonio Salviati of Vicenza opened a factory in Venice for the production of mosaics, and in 1866 he established a furnace for blown glass. 

The exhibition shows how the splendid Renaissance and Baroque blown glass in the Museo del Vetro, founded in 1861, brought precious inspiration to the masters of 19th-century Murano. After the difficult period of crisis, they reproduced the most refined glass of past centuries, renewing them in the taste of the time with the addition of very fine polychrome ornamentation. 

The glass art of the Roman world was also studied with great interest for its forms as well as style. The most successful process was undoubtedly glass-mosaic or murrino, associated in particular with the name of Vincenzo Moretti. 

In these ways the exhibition exhaustively retraces one of the most interesting and compelling chapters in the long history of Murano glass through the masterpieces in the collection of the Museo del Vetro, many of them now displayed for the first time. 

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From 3 December 2021 to 16 October 2022
Murano, Museo del Vetro

SILICON DIOXIDE, the new solo exhibition by TONY CRAGG at the Museo del Vetro in
Murano runs from 3 December 2021 to 16 October 2022, and features a variety of
works several of which have never been exhibited before.

The exhibition retraces the most significant stages of the English artist’s career, starting with his assemblages, historical works of large dimensions in which small groups of objects are juxtaposed and brought together.

The scene offered by the selection of sculptures on show faithfully reproduces Cragg’s
artistic vision and his unique ability to communicate through glass, a material whose
intrinsic geometries he has always been able to exploit.

The exhibition is curated by Berengo Studio in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici
di Venezia.

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The Venice Glass Week, the international festival founded in 2017 to celebrate, support and promote the art of glassmaking – the artistic and economic activity for which Venice has been known around the world for over a thousand years – is now in its fifth edition, and will be held in Venice, Murano and Mestre from 4th to 12th September 2021.
This year’s event has a new “title-hashtag” #VivaVetro! – a cheer of enthusiasm – also expressed visually via the spectrum of colours in the new graphic image – which is designed to convey the timeless energy of the material of glass, and aims to give support and renewed vigour to the sector of Murano glass production which, after months of closure, is recovering and restarting with optimism.

Once again, this year The Venice Glass Week – an initiative promoted by the Comune di Venezia and conceived by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini-LE STANZE DEL VETRO, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and by the most important organization associated with the glass sector, Consorzio Promovetro Murano, which manages the trademark of the Veneto Region Vetro Artistico® Murano – is part of the programme of “Great Events” supported by the Regione del Veneto.

MUSEI CIVICI OF VENICE’S PROGRAMME

PERLE 1.0

Great attention will be given this year to the art of glass beads, which was recently awarded Intangible Cultural Heritage status by UNESCO, with a series of initiatives titled Perle 1.0 organized in Mestre and Venice by the Comune di Venezia together with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.

Perle in Vetrina is the difused exhibition in shop windows which will display original glass necklaces created by important contemporary masters and designers.

From 6th September to 6th October in Forte Marghera visitors will be able to admire the photographic exhibition Perle 1.0 – Perlere and Impiraresse. Immagini tra ieri e oggi per raccontare un’arte, which recounts the craft of glass beads and impiraresse from the twentieth century to today.

Adults and children will also be able to participate in bead workshops taking place in Mestre, Forte Marghera, on the Lido and at the Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano.

Palazzo Mocenigo will host The History of glass beads a three-day conference from 11th to 13th September, curated by Augusto Panini, an international expert on beads.
As part of the events of the conference, Friday 10 September 17.00 will be presented at Palazzo Mocenigo the volume Glass Jewels – from Prehistory to the III Millennium by Bianca Cappello and Augusto Panini, in the presence of the authors.

ASPECIAL OPENINGS – THE GLASS MUSEUM ON MURANO
6, 7 and 8 September from 11.00 to 17.00

Exhibition: MURANO GLASS TOYS
Glass Museum on Murano
From 4th September to 3rd October 2021

From 4th September to 3rd October the new Murano Glass Toys exhibition will be open to the public at the Museo del Vetro on Murano, curated by architect Matteo Silverio and organized by the Consorzio Promovetro Murano with the support of the Regione del Veneto and the Camera di Commercio di Venezia Rovigo. Murano Glass Toys, an initiative conceived with the aim of promoting the regional brand Vetro Artistico® Murano, is an ambitious project, characterized by an innovative setting: no longer a glass exhibition to “look at but not touch”, but a real interactive and multimedia installation, a room where the visitor can play and be amazed. The project involves fourteen Murano glass masters from as many concessionary companies of the Vetro Artistico® Murano brand who have put themselves to the test for the occasion, addressing a theme far from their usual production. In Murano Glass Toys, glass lives, moves and interacts with the viewer: in this magical atmosphere, visitors can experience or relive the emotions related to their childhood and youth.

Exhibition: SEABEAD FLOWERS. Benedetta Gaggia at Palazzo Mocenigo
Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo
From 4th to 12th September 2021

For the 2021 Glass Week, the stunning rooms of Palazzo Mocenigo will present Seabead flowers, an exhibition curated by Cristina Beltrami: a selection of about forty unique pieces, expressly made by Benedetta Gaggia, will be shown in the extraordinary 17th century portego of Palazzo Mocenigo.

Exhibition: MORE REAL THAN REAL. Bruno Amadi at the Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue
From 4th to 12th September 2021

The Venice Natural History Museum Giancarlo Ligabue will host from from 4th to 12th September the exhibition curated by Cristina Beltrami More Real than Real. Bruno Amadi at the Natural History Museum, a words game and a challenge to the visitor that in the days of The Glass Week will admire, tracking down, the extraordinary glass miniatures by Bruno Amadi, shown in a comparison with the shells, the roaches, the locusts, the mosquitos, the butterflies, the crustaceans of the permanent collection of the Museum.

GLASS IN VENICE PRIZE

Palazzo Franchetti on 9th September 2021 will host the award ceremony for the winners of the ninth edition of the prestigious Glass in Venice Prize, organized by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia: the recognition is given to artists and glass masters who have particularly distinguished themselves with their work, working in the great Murano tradition, or, elsewhere in the world, with diferent schools and techniques. This year’s winners are the artists Federica Marangoni, with the awarding of the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Mauro Bonaventura. From 4th to 12th September works by the winners will be exhibited in the atmospheric setting of the atrium of Palazzo Loredan, amongst the marble efgies of the Panteon Veneto which brings together the busts of illustrious fgures who were either born or lived in Venice.

For more information and complete programme:

• www.theveniceglassweek.com
• info@theveniceglassweek.com

Perle 1.0 is sponsored Vetreria Vistosi

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The international festival dedicated to the art of glass returns with more than 180 different events including exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, workshops, performances and educational activities.

Comune di Venezia, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Cini/LE STANZE DEL VETRO, Istituto Veneto and Consorzio Promovetro Murano present the second edition of the festival that from 9th to 16th September will involve all the main institutions in the city, with several new additions.

From 9 to 16 September 2018, more than 150 participants, with a total of over 180 events across Venice, Mestre and Murano, will take part in the second edition of The Venice Glass Week, the major international festival dedicated to the art of glass, conceived to celebrate the artistic and economic resource for which Venice is famous around the world.

The event is promoted by the Town Council of Venice and conceived by three of Venice’s principal cultural institutions with considerable experience and expertise in the field of glass – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – along with the most important trade association, the Consorzio Promovetro Murano, which also manages the Vetro Artistico® Murano trademark of the Veneto Region.  This year’s edition has again attracted a large number of participants, with a 20% increase over the first year’s festival.

Hundreds of applications were originally submitted for review and selection by the curatorial committee that was introduced this year, chaired by the Venetian glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti, and including critics and curators Chiara Bertola and Jean Blanchaert, journalist and editor of the German magazine Neues Glas Uta Klotz, and chemist, university teacher and expert in the composition of glass materials Marco Verità. The high volume of applications, from foundations, art galleries, museums – among which we note the participation for the first time of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Fortuny and Museo di Storia Naturale -, cultural institutions, universities and advanced education institutes, as well as glass furnaces, companies, artists and private Italian and foreign collectors, confirms the dynamism and vitality of Venice’s cultural scene, and provides a strong indication of the local and international interest in the field of glass.

The rich and expansive programme for The Venice Glass Week festival will involve varied and widespread events across the district, which this year also extends to the mainland, with Mestre now one of its main centres, along with Venice and Murano. The events, most with free entrance, will all have artistic glass as their main theme and be aimed at audiences of all ages: exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, seminars, prize-giving ceremonies, film screenings, educational activities, parties, drinks receptions, open studios and a non-competitive night-time race around the candle-lit streets, canals and glass-furnaces of Murano.

MUSEO DEL VETRO’S PROGRAMME

Exhibition: Mario Bellini at Murano, curated by Gabriella Belli and Chiara Squarcina.
From 9 September 2018 to 3 March 2019.

In addition to the presence of its exceptional permanent exhibition, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is presenting an exploration of innovative forms of artistic expression in glass through the work of the famous architect and designer Mario Bellini. 

Born in Milan in 1935, Mario Bellini has influenced the history of architecture and international design through his extensive work in the field of industrial design, which has led him to create some of the most innovative products in the automobile industry (Renault), electronics (as former chief design consultant for Olivetti), and the communication field (La Rinascente). Recently the architect of Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt (2011) and of the new wing of the Louvre dedicated to Islamic art (2012), Bellini has also complemented his professional activity with experimentations in many materials and widely varied techniques, among them glass, which he has designed on the island of Murano for the furnaces of Seguso and Venini.

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Guided tours: Venezia Arte Cultura & Turismo – Murano, back to the future
Museo del Vetro, Fondamenta Giustinian 8, Murano.
Opening days and times: 11 and 14 September in Italian, 13 September in English, from 2.30pm until 4.15pm.

We will retrace the history of glass, going through the most precious artefacts on display at the Glass Museum to then analyze the realities of the present day. Special emphasis will be placed on the art of making glass beads. In the past, the production of beads was carried out in Venice rather than in Murano, and it was a woman’s occupation rather than a man’s. It relied on a widespread network of bead-makers, who worked at home using the glass canes produced in the Murano kilns. The revival of Murano glass at the end of the 19th c. was also boosted by an extraordinary production of beads, highly valued items traded in and out of the Mediterranean since time immemorial. Today the art of bead-making still engages and challenges a considerable number of creative and innovative artisans and artists.

Exhibition: Autonoma ACSTVM Associazione culturale per la salvaguardia delle tecniche vetrarie muranesi e.t.s. Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda – LIGHT ON
From 9 to 16 September 2018, 10am-6pm, last entrance 5pm.

Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia hosts AUTONOMA & ACSTVM, a project by Marcantonio Brandolini d’Adda. The project involves a programme of cultural exchange with The Pilchuck Glass School, which aims to create an international hub for artists and designers from around the world, and to preserve and spread the tradition of glass-making.
The goal of the second edition of AUTONOMA & ACSTVM is to lay the foundations for a lasting scholarship programme. Building on the success of this year’s pilot programme – where three students visited and worked in glass factories for several weeks – the structure of the programme will be modified in an effort to promote an experience that benfits all participants.
The program will continue to showcase the rich glassmaking tradition of Murano, but will also have a much wider practical component: instead of simply visiting the factories, participants had the opportunity to work in a glass factory under the expert guidance of Andy Paiko. The programme hosted six students and was themed, both in practice and in theory, around the reinterpretation of the classic Rezzonico chandeliers. This exhibition presents three new glass chandeliers designed and produced by the students, assisted by some of the most prestigious Masters of Murano.

Discover Musei Civici di Venezia’s complete programme > 

For information and for discover general programme:

• www.theveniceglassweek.com
• info@theveniceglassweek.com

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PRESS RELEASE

Enlarged and completely refurbished, the Museo del Vetro di Murano (Murano Glass Museum) re-opens its doors

From February 9, 2015

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Saturday, February 7

Press preview for accredited journalists

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Sunday, February 8

Inauguration by invitation only

What will greet the public at Murano from February 9 will be a completely transformed museum, ready to illustrate a great history. The exhibition spaces have been almost doubled, the layout totally renewed, and the new displays and themes will enable visitors to discover the key milestones in the history of Murano glass and enjoy the – in many cases unique – masterpieces the museum conserves. There are also new conveniences for the public, the building has been made disabled friendly, two lifts have been added and it is now possible to display part of the holdings hitherto in storage, and also arrange events linked to modern creativity, with a fascinating and unexpected dialogue between contemporary settings and antique rooms.

The re-opening will be cause for great celebration on the island and in Venice generally.

The Museo del Vetro di Murano, one of the 12 museums belonging to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, is perhaps the only place in the world where the art of glassmaking is recounted from its origins: from the examples of Roman glass dating from the 1st to 3rd century AD to the creations of the Renaissance and virtuoso innovations of the 18th century, which looked forward to the unhoped-for revival of glass at the end of the 19th century and experiments of the 20th. Certainly it is the only museum dedicated to artistic glass located within an active and firmly rooted context of actual production, thanks to the many furnaces and glassmakers still working on Murano. The enlargement, with the recovery of a part of the former Conterie, and the restyling, supervised by Chiara Squarcina, based on a museographical layout by Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and with layout by Daniela Ferretti, has been made possible thanks to combined backing from the European Union’s Fund for Regional Development assigned to the Veneto Region (as part of the POR CRO FESR Veneto 2007-2013) and to the fundamental intervention of the Venice Municipality, which was responsible for the first phase of the project under the direction of Roberto Benvenuti, in collaboration with the Fondazione’s Technical Office, directed by Daniela Andreozzi.

In this way, the project has involved both the historic rooms of Palazzo Giustinian (in which the museum has been located since 1861), and a part of the former glass beads factory next to the museum’s garden.

The conterie were beads of pâte de verre and, in particular from the end of the 19th century, beads produced from the so-called paternostreriby cutting a hollow rod and rounding off the little cylinders produced with heat in ferrazze, or special metal containers. In 1898, a number of companies involved in the production of glass beads – a world of tiracanne, conzaureri, tagiadori, cavarobe, fregadori, lustradori, governadori, impiraresse – joined forces in the complex built Palazzo Giustinian and the Basilica di San Donato, in the heart of Murano, setting up a single large company, Società Veneziana Conterie, which between 1940 and 1970 employed more than 3000 workers, until it closed in 1993.

Today, the restored spaces of this industrial factory have become a fascinating ‘white cube’, which maintains the architectural lines of the earlier structure in the arches and trabeation, and which combines artificial and natural light from its position on the  Fondamenta Giustinian.

Here, an original “time wave”, marked by 50 works ranging in date from Roman times to the 20th century, gives an initial introduction to the world of glass, giving interesting examples of the main milestones in the history of Murano glass and the technical and aesthetic developments that have accompanied it.  Because the art of glass is a magical combination of creativity and craft, a difficult symbiosis between artistic design, manual ability, an almost alchemical skill in the construction of unique chemical compounds, and knowledge of an evasive and unpredictable material. All ingredients that are well explained throughout the museum thanks to totems containing information and video content, produced in collaboration with the island’s factories and master glassmakers.

With its open space and 7-metre-high ceiling, the new structure will also offer temporary exhibitions and events on the ground floor: the first of these, from February 9 to May 30, will be a selection of black and white objects forming a heartfelt tribute to the magical sculptor of glass that was the Murano-born Luciano Vistosi, who died in 2010 after years of international success achieved thanks to his strongly three-dimensional, dynamic, impressive sculptures that capture light.

The main displays of the museum are located on the first piano nobile, where the museum offers its exceptional collection, with the new layout and lighting, through a series of thematic and chronological areas.

The impressive entrance reveals the sumptuous central drawing room, or portego, with an allegorical fresco on the ceiling by Francesco Zugno, restored for the new opening. The large room, named after the frequently anonymous masters of Murano, is the expression of the glassmaking production from the 14th to the end of the 17th century; the golden age of Murano glass. It was in those years that the skills applied in the Venetian furnaces were acclaimed throughout Europe thanks to the innovations in technology and techniques: years in which in Venice Angelo Barovier produced a pure substance called “crystal”, to which engraved decoration with diamond-tipped tools was added, and in which “ice glass” was invented, together with filigree decoration and the “mezza stampatura” (“half mould”) technique. Many exceptional works are on display: items with the coat of arms of the doge or of popes, famous creations such as the cesendello decorated with grooves and gold – a characteristic ceiling lamp based on Oriental models – and unique items like the famous Coppa Barovier, dated 1470-80, one of the oldest articles of glass in the world to be decorated with molten polychrome enamels. From the drawing room, before moving on to the 18th-century items, visitors can enter a sort of ‘cave’ containing a parenthesis dedicated to Roman glass, used as models by the Murano-based glassmakers when production first began on the island, and still able to inspire designers and artists in the 20th century. In the room dedicated to “Origins”, niches illuminated from within reveal – as though emerging from the depths of the earth – the antique glassware found in excavations and in the necropolises of Enona, Asseria and Zara, while ancient funerary vases are displayed along the walls.

The fashions and creativity of the 18th century follows this section, with the Trionfo group belonging to the Morosini family, the highly original fixés sous verre showing Venetian scenes in the manner of Pietro Longhi, and some notable mirrors from Murano. This last was one of the island’s points of excellence, sought after but inimitable abroad; for the most imposing creations, they required the work of no less than five masters.

The room dedicated to the “Taste for mimesis” in the 18th and 19th century, with chalcedony blown glass, the famous lattimi or opalescent glass  and the “extravagant” and “deceptive” aventurine, mark the return to non-transparent glass; while in the loft, which unexpectedly overlooks the space of the Conterie thanks to a large window, there is a focus on Venetian beads and murrine. Here, visitors can admire murrine byFranchini, the above-mentioned conterie and also late 19th-century lampwork beads and samples; an extremely important collection that has never hitherto been part of the museum display.

The “dark” years of Murano glass are evoked through glassware, furnishings and paintings revealing the Central European taste of the early 19th century and the spread of Bohemian articles through the lagoon, facilitated by the imposition of taxes by the Habsburg authorities on imported raw materials and the export of local production.

19th and 20th century and, finally, “revival”.

Among the protagonists of this period are Pietro Bigaglia who revived the production of filigree work, and Antonio Salviati who in 1866 opened a manufactory at Murano producing blown glass and the following year presented more than 500 different types of glass at the Universal Expo of Paris.

And finally, the 20th century, with the brilliant creations of Vittorio Zecchin, Archimede Seguso, Alfredo Barbini, Carlo Scarpaand Napoleone Martinuzzi – of whose work the museum also presents a group of works from the 1920s, received as a donation – and of many other artists who, together with the highly skilled master glassmakers able to shape glass, opened the way to modernity.
After returning to the ground floor, before leaving the museum, visitors will find a “window” on modern and contemporary design in a room named after Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle, later Brandolini: the recently-deceased creator of the famous goti, whom the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia wishes to commemorate as a non-Italian artist who used Murano glass as her means of expression and thereby contributed to its international fame.
Here, thanks to the deliberately flexible layout, it will be possible to display works from the museum’s holdings that are currently in storage, exhibit works by young artists, and present selections of the most important current production on the island. Because, especially now that its spaces have been enlarged, the museum aims to maintain a live link with today’s glass production in Murano, with its exponents, their creations, the successes and periods of crisis. In line with abbot Vincenzo Zanetti who founded it, the museum wishes to be a stimulus and point of reference for master glassmakers and companies: a historical memory and documentation of a mysterious and fascinating universe for those drawn into it for the first time, and an ambassador for the world of a unique, precious form of art. The international collaborations, major temporary exhibitions, projects and competitions will also serve in this, for a museum that will increasingly offer propositional relations and dialogues with all of the collections belonging to the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia: painting, sculpture, furnishings, costume, archive materials.

Already with the re-opening, in the museum garden visitors will be able to admire a huge sculpture by Pietro Consagra, Muraglia Rosso Verona e Nero Atlantide dated 1977 (marble, 330 x 280 x 56 cm) belonging to the Walter Fontana collection and on long-term loan to the Fondazione. Alongside the wall of the former Conterie, this sculpture acquires an extraordinary expressive force.

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Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of July, 2014
Murano Island, Venice

The first edition of MURANO GLASS MASTERS. L’isola del Vetro comes to Murano Island, the magical place in Venice, to honor its famous glass. Organised by Consorzio Promovetro di Murano, in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, LaGare spa and supported by Comune e Provincia di Venezia, it is the first festival that offers to the public a special way to discover the story of the Italian Capital of Glass.

The Glass Museum of Murano will take part in the event, hosting the exhibition “L’incanto del vetro”, with a special opening of the museum (Saturday, June 12 h 9 pm – 11 pm).

Also in the Island, free demonstrations with Glass artisans, free tour of both furnaces and island churches, free workshop for kids, shops open till late in the evening and more: music and special cuisine menus…

More information on the programme >>>

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INFORMAZIONI

info@muranoglassmasters.it
www.muranoglassmasters.it

CONSORZIO PROMOVETRO – MURANO
tel: +39 041 5275074
www.promovetro.com

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The work will be examined by a special commission set up by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and chaired by Georg J. Riedel. The award will be made at the presentation of the Glass in Venice 2014 prize,  which will take place in Venice at the Istituto Veneto, in October 2014.

The winner will be offered three nights’ accommodation in Venice at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti’s guest quarters on the occasion of  the prize giving and a trip to Kufstein (Austria) to visit Riedel, with the following programme:

Riedel Award travel programme
Thursday 27 November 2014: arrival at Munich airport, accommodation in Kufstein, visit to the Riedel factory.
Friday 28 November 2014: ‘master day’, full immersion in the art of glass blowing.
Saturday 29 November 2014: visit to Salzburg and accommodation in the city.
Sunday 30 November 2014: return to the winner’s original place of departure.

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HOW TO PARTECIPATE

Participants must be under the age of 30 at the expiry date of the award. They must present a portfolio of their work by 31st May 2014 and, if  requested for a closer examination of their work, one of their products in glass.

The material must be sent by mail, both as printed copy and as digital copy (CD or DVD or USB flash drive), enclosing also a short CV to:

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Campo Santo Stefano, 2945
30124 Venezia – Italy

Please note that as deadline (May 31) must be considered the date of delivery to our venue in Venezia, not the date of your sending.

For information write to glassinvenice@istitutoveneto.it

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Wednesday 2nd , Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th April 2014
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – Venice

The “Study Days on Venetian Glass” are an opportunity for in-depth studyon Venetian glass and are tuned to an audience of Museum conservators, collectors and experts.

The programme includes lessons by experts who, after a general overview, will guide participants through the direct study of methods and pieces, encouraging participants to actively take part, also through presentations.

Lessons and discussions will be held in English; contributions in Italian will be translated into English by the seminar curators.

The topics that will be touched upon will include:
– General overview of the history and art history of glass;
– Raw materials and casting/processing techniques;
– Archaeometrics;
– Conservation and Restoration.

The seminars will be completed by a tour of the Murano Glass Museum and by practical demonstrations in glassmaking studios.

DOWNLOAD ALL THE INFO ABOUT THE STUDY DAYS (PDF 431 KB) >>>

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Scientific and Organizing Committee:
ROSA BAROVIER MENTASTI, Glass historian
SANDRO FRANCHINI, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
WILLIAM GUDENRATH, Corning Museum of Glass
LORENZO LAZZARINI, LAMA- IUAV University of Venice
SANDRO PEZZOLI, Collector
LINO TAGLIAPIETRA, Artist and glass master
MARCO VERITÀ, LAMA- IUAV University of Venice

With the support of:

Corning Museum of Glass
Ecole du Louvre
Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia
Institut national du patrimoine
Venice Foundation
Victoria & Albert Museum

With the participation of:
UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in EuropeVenice (Italy)

Organised with the collaboration of:
AIHV – Association Internationale pour l’Historie du Verre – National Italian Committee
LAMA – Laboratorio Analisi Materiali Antichi dell’Università IUAV
Museo del Vetro, Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia

Co-financed by:
Veneto Region

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