The Glass Experience is a project that will be celebrated with a professional conference and temporary exhibitions.
An archaeological exhibition will be on display in the central gallery space, where we will collaborate with related institutions at home and abroad to showcase the rich and exceptional glassware from prehistoric times to the modern era. Other exhibition rooms will showcase industrial, artistic and contemporary glass products from our own collections as well as from other national and international museums. Novo mesto is famous for its exquisite, artistically crafted colorful glass strawberries from the Iron Age. The Experience of Glass project will involve several local and foreign museums and individual artists who process and produce glassware.
Participating in the project:
National Museum of Slovenia
Ljubljana City Museum
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana
Posavje Museum Brežice
Celje Regional Museum
Regional Museum Ptuj Ormož
Maribor Regional Museum
Pomurje Museum Murska Sobota
Regional Museum Koper
UP FHŠ, Institute of Archaeology and Heritage
Archaeological Museum Zagreb
Archaeological Museum Zadar
Museum of Ancient Glass Zadar
Museum of Arts and Crafts from Zagreb
Bärnbach Museum of Glass
Bärnbach Glassworks
Tolmin Museum
Slovenian Glassmakers Association
The glass project aims to present the extremely rich heritage of glass from different periods, from the earliest Bronze Age products to contemporary art products, and to offer content for all age groups of visitors through a variety of educational workshops, lectures, public guided tours of the exhibitions and in the field, as well as other accompanying events on the theme of glass.
The conference will present new findings in the field of research into the origins of glass and glassware, as well as new discoveries and insights from multidisciplinary archaeological research carried out in recent years in Slovenia and abroad.