Glass Museum

The Glass Museum is the most important testimony of an age-old glass processing tradition, which has characterised Piegaro and its economy since the 13th century. The building that currently houses the exhibition is the last seat, within the walls, of the glass factory that was decommissioned in 1968, moving the production into a new plant downstream of the town, which still exists today.

The Museum, inaugurated on 18 April 2009, preserves the ancient aspect of the glass factory and houses many types of artifacts from the kilns of Piegaro. Of the ancient smelting furnace the base of the perimeter wall remains that encloses the last part of glass inside at the moment of shutdown, in 1968, when a large quantity of incandescent glass, still in the melting basin, was flowed into a room located in the basement. Today this large glass casting, with its intense emerald green hue, is without doubt the most evocative inspiration inside the museum, a true “monument” to the centuries old history of production that took place in the heart of the village of Piegaro.