The Venice Glass Week

A thousand years of Venetian glass

The Venice Glass Week is the major international festival dedicated to glass art, with a programme spread across Venice, Mestre, and the island of Murano, the world capital of glassblowing for centuries. Founded in 2017, the festival has grown to become one of the most important events in the world for the promotion of this ancient art.

What the festival offers

The programme includes exhibitions, artistic installations, live demonstrations in the furnaces, conferences, lectures, guided tours, and workshops. The initiatives involve historic furnaces, museums, private galleries, artist studios, and artisan workshops, offering the public the opportunity to see master glassmakers at work and discover contemporary glass research.

An open and international festival

The festival's initiatives are open to organisations, institutions, companies, and individuals, both Italian and foreign, who wish to propose an event related to artistic glass. This participatory formula makes each edition rich with appointments distributed throughout the lagoon area.

The link with Murano and the Veneto

The beating heart of the festival is Murano, the island in the Venetian lagoon where glassmaking has been documented for almost a thousand years. The Venice Glass Week celebrates and relaunches this heritage, confirming the role of Venice and the Veneto region as a global reference for glass art.