Guided tour of the exhibition The Eighth Wonder of the World in Mladá Boleslav
Program
An exhibition full of glass, costume jewelry, and jewelry from northern Bohemia is running in the Czech Brethren Church building in Mladá Boleslav, and we invite you to a guided tour with curator Petr Nový.
Human imagination, creativity, skill and courage are the qualities that gave rise to the Seven Wonders of the World in ancient times. The first glass ornaments, whose production was started by the Celts in the territory of the present-day Czech Republic, also appeared. They were thus at the beginning of the eighth wonder of the world, which today is a unique concentration of glassmakers and jewellers in the north of Bohemia, in the Crystal Valley. Glassworks, studios, schools and skilled people have all been in the Liberec region for hundreds of years.
The exhibition presents the Crystal Valley as the ever-living, vibrant glass heart of the Czech Republic. In addition to handmade glass production, which was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2023, automatic production and technological innovations, without which contemporary glassmaking is unimaginable, also play an irreplaceable role.
WE RECOMMEND a guided tour with the exhibition curator, Petr Nový:
April 18 at 10 a.m.
More information about the exhibition can also be found here on the website.
We have also filmed a beautiful video of the exhibition for you, which you can watch here.