Open from Monday to Sunday except Thursdays, the Glass Museum offers to the visitors the possibility to admire its permanent collection and temporary exhibition accompanied by a guide. This is a free service and it can be requested in advance by calling the 8329-1000 ext. 1222 with Lic. Marta Piñeyro.
At the beginning of the century, December 6, 1909 impelled by the massive elaboration of bottles brewers, the first factory of industrial glass of Mexico was born in our city, Vidriera Monterrey S.A., origin of what is today the Group Vitro.
Eighty years later, the property of the old general offices of the factory, which was used from a period of time as a plant superintendence, firemen's station and infirmary, also became the elected place to exhibit the various glass objects
In 1989, with the guarantee of the Institute of Anthropology and History, the restoration activities to the old building began to transform it into a Glass Museum, always respecting the architectural patterns of the time and conserving the materials with which the property was built, including bricks, mosaic floors, wooden staves, stairways and the four iron columns that consolidated the structure.
After the restoration of the building, a team of multi discipline people dedicate to museums, investigators and architects, took charge of creating the museum graphic art.
Finally in 1992, with three floors of exhibition rooms for the permanent collection, the Glass Museum opened its doors to the public with the mission of rescuing, to preserve and to diffuse the history of the glass in Mexico, as well as to promote a culture of appreciation to the glass and to incentive the artistic production with this material.
At the present time the visitor can visit the home of the Mexican glass and to experiment a chronological journey through the various stages of the glass history in Mexico. In the first level, the visitor will know the traditional European glass from the XVI to the XIX centuries.
The second level is dedicated to the popular and industrial glass. In the rooms several handmade glasses can be appreciated, in the same floor it is exhibited a traditional drugstore of the XIX century and a series of copies of glass pharmacist of the time, as well as an atmosphere of the shop of Claudio Pellandini and Victor Marco, pioneer vitralistas in Mexico at the end of the XIX century until the middle of the XX century. Finally, as last part of the journey, three rooms are devoted to the industrial glass in Mexico. Here the visitor will find examples of the first glassware products manufactured in series in Monterrey.
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Main Entrance |
Panoramic View |
Glass Neckless in Coral |
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Glassblowing bottle |
Glass Mural |
Glassblowing |
