The Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou - THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD! Nowhere else in the world will you find a museum that includes the fields of glass and jewellery together, a collection of jewellery of all materials and technologies. You will find here the second largest collection of glass in the Czech Republic and at the same time one of the most important in Europe and the largest public collection of glass Christmas decorations in the world. The museum's entire collection consists of 12 million unique objects.
Glass
The second floor of the main building at the museum, covering an area of 380 sqm, is divided into four exhibition units that chronologically follow on from one another, from prehistory to the present. These areas, arranged as they are, allow us to present the glass itself, the stories that are specifically tied to it and
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Jewellery
The exposition on the first floor of thw main building details the development of the world-renowned Jablonec costume jewellery from its beginnings to the present. Although it covers an area of 380 sqm, the exposition simply cannot show visitors the full richness of collections that number more than 12 million pieces and
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Ornaments
The museum is in charge of the largest public collection of glass Christmas ornaments in the world, a collection that numbers more than fifteen thousand pieces. Most were donated by the Jablonex Company, which provided the museum with its entire range of samples of blown and decorated Christmas ornaments back in 2008.
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One of the stars in the Czech glass universe is coming to exhibit considerable pieces made of mould-melted glass, paintings, graphic art, and, for the first time, new melted drawings, all at the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec. Artist and designer Jan Exnar (born 1951) is a graduate of the Department of
The exhibition Connected by Hands and Hearts continues. Now it is being reprised in the historic setting of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja in Spain, where it was opened on October 30 at 7 p.m. with the participation of director Milada Valečková and chief curator Petr Nový.The exhibition presents a collection
Our museum is proud to present a unique view of the history of traditional artefacts from our region. The EMBOSSED INTO METAL exhibition maps out the fascinating development of embossed and pressed products in Jablonec, including fashion jewellery, medals, plaques, badges, and much more. Embossing and pressing plants
This year, our museum celebrates its 120th anniversary. Opened to the public for the first time in 1904, it was transformed from a city museum with a local history, glass and jewellery exhibition, into a specialized institution in the 1960s, which has been established by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Tue - Sun 10 AM - 5 PM / on Tuesday 14. 4. open to the public from 12 noon / on Thursday 14. 5. CLOSED for technical reasons
U Muzea 398/4
CLOSED - end of the season 2025
Bedřichov č. p. 52
