Today, the museum houses collections covering 700 years in the history of Venetian glass starting from Ancient Roman times, including remarkable information on artisan techniques. A whole room is devoted to contemporary glass art and craft.
In 2014, a new museum dedicated to the art of glassmaking was born in the heart of Venice, housed inside beautiful Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, the former home of Ca' Foscari university. The Vitraria Glass+A Museum has quite a unique, 'universal' approach to the history of glass. For instance, its collection are not strictly limited to glass objects: by includig other materials and art forms such as iron, resin, videos and photography, the exhibits aim at suggesting ideas and inspirations concerning the various qualities of glass - fragility, transparency, liquidness and transformability.
The museum tells visitors an 'open' story that they can experience individually, finding their very own paths and interpretations without being guided by captions and labels. Besides big names of contemporary art such as Bill Viola, Frank Stella and AES + F, Vitraria Glass +A Museum houses the works of emerging local artists such as Sofia Olmeda, who creates her pieces with the help of an old image scanner.
Author : C.L.G.