Barovier&Toso Museum
Museum
fact sheet Visit
the Museum The
Collection Inventions
and discoveries
Inaugurated on 14 June 1995, the Barovier&Toso Museum is located on
the top floor of the Palazzo Contarini in Murano, a XVI-century building
whose most recent incarnation is that of the world HQ of Barovier&Toso.
Some 250 objects are on display in the museum, all of these drawn either
from the private collection of Angelo Barovier of that of the Barovier&Toso
company.
Representing the very best of the production of "Artisti Barovier", "Barovier & C." and "Barovier&Toso" between 1880 and 1970, most of the pieces are the work of Ercole Barovier, the leading "owner-designer-artist" of Murano glass of the twentieth century.
In addition to the artifacts, the Barovier&Toso Museum makes accessible a vast archive containing photos, drawings and other documents collected over an extended period. Examples include over 22,000 original drawings by Ercole Barovier, a number of catalogues featuring photographs of glass objects, the originals of the traditional "libretti delle composizioni" which provided glassmakers with the necessary ingredients for making glass, as well as a number of other items that testify to the tradition of manufacturing and artistic creation during the period under examination.
The Barovier&Toso Museum is the only private museum in Venice open for visiting.