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:
Narodni muzej Slovenije
Mestni muzej Ljubljana
Oddelek za arheologijo, FF v Ljubljani
Posavski muzej Brežice
Pokrajinski muzej Celje
Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj Ormož
Pokrajinski muzej Maribor
Pomurski muzej Murska Sobota
Gorenjski muzej Kranj
Pomorski muzej Sergej Mašera
Pokrajinski muzej Koper
Inštitut za dediščino Sredozemlja iz Kopra
Arheološki muzej Zagreb
Arheološki muzej Zadar
Muzej antičkog stakla Zadar
Muzej za umjetnost i obrt iz Zagreba
Muzej stekla Bärnbach
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.