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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We are preparing a new exhibition, which will present thirteen artists with significantly different creative glass techniques.Hungary has so far not exploited the potential of Hungarian glass art in building and communicating its cultural image and has not made it part of its cultural identity, although contemporary
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Rome, together with the Czech Center Rome and our museum, is organizing a unique exhibition of Czech cut glass. The artworks will decorate the Sala del Cenacolo in the Vicolo Valdina Complex. The inauguration took place on April 29, 2025, and the exhibition itself will last until May
The exhibition to by closed from 5 May to 20 June 2025 for to air conditioning installation. Thank you for your understanding.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
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
Tu - Sun 10 AM - 5 PM
U Muzea 398/4
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Bedřichov č. p. 52
