Works not seen it, cataloged and stored in warehouses, which are finally breathing in Glass Museum of Murano. Since last December 6, you can admire in two rooms of the exhibition objects "Ritrovare il Museo (Finding the Museum): Murano 1797-1859", which falls in the series of exhibitions dedicated to the rediscovery and promotion nuclei of collections, not normally exposed to the public but of particular The importance and significance.

For a couple of months will be exposed overtime and little-known nineteenth of the first glass, whose complete catalog was made possible thanks to the Italian Association Internationale pour L'Histoire du Verre, with the assistance of the Veneto Region. Production of this period, the museum owns the largest collection in the world.
       Curators of the project are Aldo Bova and Silvio Fuso. The works on display are 135 and document a delicate moment in the history of Murano glass, after the fall of the Republic, where few teachers of special talent and courage, responding to a deep economic crisis that is artistic, tried to reconcile the need for innovation and change with a recovery techniques and secrets of the past. The exhibition is held with the support of VetroVetro, in the spaces of the Museum recently renovated and re-equipping.
       The protagonists of this period are teachers and entrepreneurs individually, without coordination or any opportunity to share, to discouragement and responded to the crisis by implementing various strategies: Benedict Barbaria, Peter Bigaglia, Domenico Bussolin, Giovanni Battista and Jacopo Franchini, John Giacomuzzi, Graziati Lorenzo and Lorenzo Radi. Chalcedony, and avventurina watermark, but also pearls, murrine and mosaics are essential life-form, elegant, very contemporary. Unpublished and absolute masterpieces, accompanied by extraordinary documents, as the plate with the monochrome portrait of Napoleon I (realized during the visit to Murano's December 3 1808, exactly 200 years ago) but also colorful and samples of the shelf a table with marble inlay in polychrome glazes, exhibited in New York in 1853 and donated to the museum by the authors in 1863.
       For information www.museiciviciveneziani.it. Open to the public with time 10-17 (10-16 Ticket). Closed Wednesdays, on Christmas Day and the first of January.