Thursday 28 March 2024

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Thursday 28 March 2024

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    Empoli, the city of glass

    Empoli, an important Tuscan city located a few kilometers from Florence is known for the production of glass, a very ancient activity, which has developed in tandem with that of wine.

    To keep this important Italian tradition alive, MuVE, the glass museum, was inaugurated in Empoli in July 2020.

    In the Tuscan territory, the production of glass was already active in the fifteenth century, and had a significant boost in the second half of the eighteenth century, when Domenico Lorenzo Levantini began to produce majolica and glass.
    The glassworks with their chimneys, the noises of the kilns have employed thousands of glassmakers specialized in making the famous flasks and demijohns typical of the city of Empoli.

    Since the 80s, the historic glassworks have moved out of the city center and several of them have closed their production.

    At this point, the city created the Glass Documentation Center in 1996 to preserve and make known to the world the memory of a great tradition.

    In 1997, the exhibition \ "Glass is told \" was set up in the rooms of the Convent of the Augustinians. the products, that the culture of the precious work of the Tuscan glass masters.

    Over the years, thanks to the numerous donations of glass objects by citizens and private collectors, first of all those of Fortunato Morelli and Giovanni and Rosetta Gambacciani, the nucleus of materials has been constituted and enriched which since 2010 have found their rightful place in the halls of the MuVE, the Glass Museum.

    The Empoli Glass Museum is set up in the evocative spaces created inside the Magazzino del Sale, one of the oldest buildings in the city, whose construction dates back to 1365.

    The MuVE exhibition itinerary focuses on the glass industry that has strongly marked the identity of the city of Empoli.

    Source: empolimusei.it

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