- Location: Galerija
The exhibition offers an overview of glassware from prehistory, beginning in the Late Bronze Age (9th century BC), all the way up to the early modern period. Material from the museum’s own archaeological collection is complemented by remarkable pieces from the collections of other museums in Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. The central part of the exhibition is dedicated to skilfully made glass necklace beads of many colours, evidence of the flourishing Hallstatt culture in Dolenjska in the fifth century BC. New discoveries and the development of glassmaking both here and in other countries permitted the creation of numerous new kinds of glassware and their general use in everyday life, particularly in Roman times. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, glassware served to reflect wealth and prestige and was the work of highly skilled master glassmakers. Stories from prehistoric times to the early modern period are reflected through remarkable glass products – beautiful, colourful, transparent, fragile yet strong – that stand as supreme examples of the glassmaker’s art.
COLOPHON
Head of project Jasna Dokl Osolnik / Author Petra Stipančić / Design of the exhibition and graphic design Maja Rudolf Markovič/ Text revision Alenka Klemenc/ English translation Amidas, d. o. o./ Photographs Borut Križ, Saša Fuis, Borut Peterlin, Michał Rutkowski, Alenka Stražišar Lamovšek, Žiga Šmit/ Conservation and restauration of items Simon Bobnar, Miha Jakobčič, Robert Koračin, mag. Jana Šubic Prislan, RGZM Mainz/ Video contents Arhiv Dolenjskega muzeja Novo mesto, Arhiv Glasmuseum Bärnbach, Lara Lapanje/ Video editing Alenka Stražišar Lamovšek/ Drawings Anđelka Fortuna Saje, Dragica Knific Lunder, Jerneja Kobe/ Reconstruction of prehistoric furnace Simon Bobnar, Peter Menger, Mateusz Frankiewicz/ Instalation of the exhibition Simon Bobnar, Robert Koračin (ZVKDS, Restavratorski center), Peter Menger, Dubravka Pejčić, Maja Rudolf Markovič, Janez Smrekar, Petra Stipančić, Dušan Obradinovič/ Cases and constructions Šiško steklarstvo, d. o. o., PR-MONT Rudi Petan s.p./ Printed by Reklame Žarn Brežice
