G&B beads / Museum of Beadmaking
In 1991 we continued the family tradition from 1937 and in the last 20 years we have been one of the largest producers of glass beads in the region. After 2000 we began to specialise mainly in developing new shapes and colour combinations in our range of fire-polished and pressed beads. We regularly launch many new products that have been adopted by many companies involved in the production of these beads. We not only produce glass beads, but also collaborate with the world's leading designers on glass jewellery collections. We have won a number of awards that reward the work of our glass and jewellery makers. With pride and respect, we continue the glass and jewellery tradition and proudly follow in the footsteps of our ancestors' historical legacy. We are happy to guide you through our production, bead museum, glass and jewellery gallery, you can visit the company shop and in the modern space of creative workshops you can make a picture from glass mosaic or your own glass jewellery.
Visitors to our premises, museum, production facilities and the newly created exhibition of Czech glassmaking and jewellery are offered guided tours, where we present the history and present-day production of glass beads - beads. Interesting features of the museum include, for example, all-wood machines for cutting glass rods and cutting glass stones from the 19th century or a collection of wound glass beads and floral glass brooches. On a tour of our current operation, we'll let you peek into our bead kitchen and see how many hands, machines and time it takes to turn a glass rod into a pressed or cut bead. In our company shop, your eyes will be transfixed by the thousands of bead shapes, colours, finishes and sizes. In our workshops you can choose from a range of workshops and classes for children and adults. Programs are suitable for kindergarten and primary school classes, outdoor schools, you can organize a birthday party full of beads or attend lectures on history, fashion, other cultural and social events.