Municipal Museum in Zelezny Brod

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About us

We are a museum that focuses mainly on art glass. The history of our
museum is almost a hundred years. Art glass has its origins in Železný
Brod, a small town in the north of the Czech Republic. The artists
Libenský, Brychtová, for example, worked here. Our museum exhibits a
collection of their extensive glass sculptures. We have many interesting
exhibits in our collections. Currently, the museum is undergoing
extensive reconstruction. We will be opening on March 1, 2024. The goal
of the new museum will be to make the museum accessible to a large
number of visitors. Our museum team wants to expand relationships with
foreign glassmakers and experts. We are cooperating with the High
School of Art and Glass, co-organizing a glass symposium and regularly
enriching our art glass collection with new exhibits.

What we offer

We are primarily looking for glass artists who would be interested in
participating in the glass symposia that are held every year in early
September. Among our symposium participants are such personalities of
glass art as Lhotský, Exnar, Plesl, etc. This year we organized the
twelfth year of the symposium. In recent years, our symposium has taken
on an international format. We have hosted artists from Norway, Poland
and Slovakia. We would like to invite artists from other European
countries as well. As part of our efforts, we are working on the
Creative Europe project, which will pay for most of the costs of
organizing the symposium and the artists’ fees. Please send your work to
the email below. We look forward to hearing from you!