Museum of Winter Sports, Hiking and crafts in Deštné v Orlických horách

Glassmaking in Orlické Mountains

Museum of Winter Sports, Hiking and crafts in Deštné v Orlických horách

Part of the museum exhibition focuses on glass from Orlické Mountains. It is conceived as a Research Laboratory of the history of glass, showing the results of more than twenty years of research work, including a five-year archaeological research on the extinct glassworks, situated on the very ridge of the Orlické Mountains. In the garden area of the museum you can see a small glass furnace for melting glass with wood.

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