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Murano, new section on the 19th century opens at the Glass Museum

As of Dec. 12, 2025, the Murano Glass Museum will open to the public a new permanent section entirely dedicated to 19th-century glassmaking. The inauguration, part of the larger program of protection, enhancement and reorganization of museum spaces c...
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When the Biennale exhibited masterpieces from glassworks. What the exhibition at the Glass Rooms looks like.

On the sidelines of the LX Venice Biennale, Le Stanze del Vetro dedicate a historical exhibition to the presence of Murano glass in the Giardini Pavilion between 1912 and 1930. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to admire extraordinary masterpieces...
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Murano Glass Museum opens exhibition to raise awareness of glass recycling

From Sept. 7, 2023 to Jan. 6, 2024, the Murano Glass Museum will host an exhibition that for the first time features about forty works created by the island's master glassmakers with recycled industrial glass, a material they are not used to working ...
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Venice, at Stanze del Vetro exhibition on Venini glassworks' activity in lighting

The Stanze del Vetro in Venice, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, will host from September 18, 2022 to January 8, 2023 the exhibition Venini: Light 1921-1985, curated by Marino Barovier, which intends to delve into the activity of the Venini gla...
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Asti, at Palazzo Mazzetti the glass collected by Pino and Donatella Clinanti

After the major exhibition The Macchiaioli. The Adventure of Modern Art that ended with great public success last June 5, from June 25 to October 16, Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti opens its doors to The Glass is Life. The Pino and Donatella Clinanti Colle...
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Glass flowers at Villa Carlotta

Villa Carlotta in Tremezzina (CO) will host Fiori di vetro dalla collezione Bersellini (Glass Flowers from the Bersellini Collection), an exhibition featuring flowers made in glass, from July 14 to September 9, 2018. The Bersellini collection, start...
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Venice and Marseille together for a project on glass

The appointment with "Le Stanze del Vetro," a project conceived by the Giorgio Cini Foundation and Pentagram Stiftung, which this year will collaborate with Cirva - Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les artes plastiques for the event ...
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Murano Glass Museum showcases the world of glass beads

Starting tomorrow, Dec. 8, Murano glass beads will take center stage in a special exhibition set up in the spaces of the Murano Glass Museum. The exhibition"The World in a Pearl. The Glass Museum's pearl collection 1820-1890," curated by Chiara Squa...
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