Glasmuseum Passau — Attraction in Passau

A beautiful museum that is a testimony to the determination of one man. As I understand it from the information provided the founder of the museum kept buying glass pieces until his wife finally told him to get them out the house and start a museum.

We were in Passau and wanted to kill some time before the ship left so wandered in. I'm glad we did. Well worth the 7 Euro price of admission.

The pieces are arranged by maker, so a bit hard to follow if you are trying to follow in chronological order. And only about half the pieces are labelled in English, but we spent a couple of hours wandering from...

Amazing collection of glass. Spent hours here on the top floors of pieces. The second half with the art nouveau was horrid as expected but you can spend plenty of time on the earlier section to justify your money. I deducted 1 star because the automatic lights don't turn on in half the rooms when you walk in so we had to use my phone's flashlight and 1 star because the signage was very confusing and so you couldn't tell if you were going the right way or if you were missing rooms along the way. Overall we would still recommend the museum and would go again but these issues should...

You've got to be at least remotely interested in glass to go round here. There's a huge number of pieces and it's arranged by maker / theme. Its not a study of the history of glass making (so no material from Venice here as far as I can see) nor do they illustrate how the techniques are done. Its more a celebration of German / Bohemian (Czech) glassmaking from 1820 to 1930. The pieces range from delightful to (in my opinion) fairly gross, but the range of glass products is covered very thoroughly. Its a good hour or two if you like glass and at 7 EUR...