Region · 2 museums
Glass in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Aquileia, a great emporium of the Roman Empire, preserves one of the world's most important collections of ancient glass; in Trieste, the Winckelmann Museum explains its techniques.
Ancient glassNational Archaeological Museum of Aquileia
Aquileia, UdineOne of the world's great Roman glass collections
- One of the greatest collections of Roman glass
- Unguentaria, urns, cameo and gold-band glass
- A testimony to ancient glass technology
Ancient glass«J.J. Winckelmann» Museum of Antiquities
TriesteThe techniques of ancient glass, on San Giusto hill
- Every ancient glass technique in one dedicated section
- Products of the Aquileia workshops (1st–2nd century AD)
- Early medieval glass and eastern imports