The unique Czech Museum of Glass and Costume Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou announces: a celebration of the glassmaking craft will take place at more than 60 locations across the country from 13 to 19 October 2025. The pilot project Glassmakers' Week was initiated by the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou as part of the celebration of the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage (celebrated from 17 October 2024) and as a reminder of the inscription of handmade glassmaking on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2023).
Entry on the prestigious list proves the exceptional quality of Czech glass and the unique skills of many generations of our glassmakers, which has no comparison in any country. The Jablonec Museum took advantage of the newly declared International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage last year and united the glassmaking community of the Czech Republic in one big celebration.
"It is great that we are registering interest in this year's trial year across the whole country, from Klatovy in Šumava to Květná on the Moravian-Slovakian border, and glassworks from Tasice or the north of Moravia have also signed up." the director of the Jablonec Museum introduced the participants of the unique event Milada Valečková.
The Great Glass Festival
In addition, the event will intersect with the Crystal Valley Weekend on 18-19 October 2025. Crystal Valley is an important tourist product featuring the leading handmade glassmakers of North Bohemia, which has been prepared by the Regional Development Agency of the Liberec Region since March 2019. During excursions into the operation, they can see the production itself.
"The Liberec Region, i.e. the Crystal Valley, is a unique North Bohemian region, which is today a natural centre of traditional and contemporary Czech glassmaking. Every autumn we open a wide range of our artists' operations to visitors, specific information is available on the crystalvalley.cz website", adds the director of the Crystal Valley Lukas Zmatlik.
Glass - Czech family silver
In total, more than sixty glassworks and studios, museums and schools will offer accessible workshops, demonstrations of traditional and modern glass production, exhibitions of art glass and original jewellery, excursions, creative workshops and workshops or sales stands with original glass products.
"In fact, the whole of our republic could be called the Crystal Valley, because glassworks have moved over the centuries and in all regions some have survived or new ones have been created.", adds my colleague Valečková.
A list of all the participating places and the current programme can be found on the website of the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou, which is the guarantor of the state's conservation measures for the registration of handmade glass production on the UNESCO list. As part of the project, the museum itself will offer another annual discussion meeting, Glass Dawn (Monday 13 October), free admission and a screening of films on glassmaking (Friday 17 October). It will also join the Crystal Valley Weekend, with a creative workshop on Saturday 18 October and a demonstration of the production of blown glass figurines on Sunday 19 October by the master of the craft, Karel Sobotka. Discounted admission will be available on both days.
The Crystal Valley offers extraordinary experiences
Tourists can thus enjoy not only a visit to the craft workshops and metallurgical plants, where they work with glass pipes or over stoves, but also to the Glass Garden or the Crystal Temple in Kunratice near Cvikov. Also unique is the visit to the leading Czech stained glass workshop offered as part of the Glass Week of the family company Skloart in Lubenec in the Karlovy Vary region, including a visit to the unique Museum of Stained Glass, which is unparalleled elsewhere in Europe.
More on: www.vitrazovemuzeum. cz Glassmakers' Week has been alive online for several weeks. In the future, the organizers would like to profile the event as a national holiday like Museum Night or European Heritage Days (More at: https://www.msb-jablonec.cz/akce/tyden-sklaru).
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