The only one in the world!

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.

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Expositions

Museum Glass Glass
Permanent exposition

The magic garden - Bohemian glass in seven centuries

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...

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Museum Jewellery Jewellery
Permanent exposition

The endless story of 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...

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Museum Ornaments Ornaments
Permanent exposition

World of Wonders

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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Current exhibitions

Museum
08. 11. 2024 - 27. 04. 2025

New exhibition - 3x Kopřiva

One family, two generations, three personalities-Under the title 3 x KOPŘIVA, the Museum of Glass and Jewellery has put together a conceptual exhibition of the work of spouses Karolína Kopřivová (born 1970) and Pavel Kopřiva (born 1968) and their son Pavel Kopřiva Jr. (born 1995), who, in addition to a collective...

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Museum
25. 10. 2024 - 07. 09. 2025

(In)despansable Details - Buttons from Jablonec and the Jizera Mountains

See the largest collection of buttons in the world in Jablonec! What do the Egyptian sphinx, the unicorn, and famous actress Sarah Bernardt all have in common? You will find the answer to this at IN/DISPENSABLE DETAILS – Buttons from Jablonec and the Jizera Mountains, an exhibition organised by the our museum. Buttons...

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23. 05. 2024 - 31. 12. 2024

Simply the Best - SPAIN

Czech and Spanish glass design will be introduced to the Iberian Peninsula!Together, our museum and the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja prepared an exhibition of contemporary Czech and Spanish utility glass and design, which they called SIMPLY THE BEST. It will take place from May 23 to December 31 in Spain....

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24. 04. 2024 - 28. 03. 2027

Christmas decorations from the International symposium

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...

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Come and see the local collections of glass, jewellery, buttons, coins, medails and plaques in the permanent exhibitions The Endless Story of Jewellery, The Magic Garden - Bohemian Glass in Seven Centuries and The World of Wonders / WOW (Glass Christmas Decorations). Go for glittering beauty!

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