The museum shows the glass history from about 3000 BC to the present day.
 
Old tools, furnaces, port and equipment,
which are necessary for glass making
 
among others unique objects worldwide like:

    the longest colored hand-blown vase
    the world's only glass tennis stadium
    reproduction sculptures of Miro, Picaso, Egg-Fabrege
    world's largest "Santa Claus" with racing animals & sledge
    unique 3-D sculptures

 " Santa Claus with the reindeer " is a unique piece in the world.

As well as many glass objects from different artists from all eras.

Glass from the glassworks Victor Alexander


Coveted objects masterful art of glassblowing.

For generations, the Federal Republic of Germany has been a center for the production of high quality crystal glasses, glass goblets and glass products.
 
Essential for the high quality is our experience and the masterly skill of our glassmakers.
 Artists and craftsmen at the same time, they shape the glass, this fascinating material of legendary origin, into valuable unique pieces.

According to centuries-old techniques, is operated at modern glass furnaces, the combination of tradition and progress, experience in the glassworks Victor Alexander.

History of glassmakers

Forming at the furnace by glassmakers: processing of single- or multi-colored hot glass. Appliqués by melting on naps or glass threads ("overlays"), melting on feet, etc. Pulling out thin, colored overlays with a pointed iron to form feathered patterns.

Piercing air bubbles by means of a nail or small stick dipped in water (evaporation in the glass). Blowing and working low-melting glass by glassblowers "in front of the lamp" instead of at the furnace (=blowing lamp; bellows) Home work. Easily softened melt due to alumina additions: No crystallization, no devitrification when reheated.


Since there is no need for repickling, there is no breakage. Processing - in many cases of colored glass - by blowing and melting. Needles and tongs as working tools. Used in Venice: in Germany since the 17th century. Also glass spinning in the form of drawn-out threads. Marbling of the mass by fusing and stirring different colored glass.


Thread glass: Streaky patterning by melting together colored rods or parallel or netted threads, e.g. as milk glass inlay. Twisted patterns by twisting the glass bubble.
Ice glass: Ice-like craquelé. Either achieved by quenching the mass in cold water or by rolling the globule on - also colored - glass chips with subsequent warping.

Overlay, different colored glass blowing before the glass furnace; as inner or outer overlay. Cameo glass.
Finishing methods outside the glassworks: diamond-cut, linear decoration of cold glass; from 1534, - diamond and steel stippling. Cold painting. Cold painted oil colors with resin additives. No firing. Little durable. In small muffle furnaces (in Vedendig; inside the smelter) fired on.
Gold or silver. Also as inlay. Drawing by engraving, luster by weak polishing. Sensitive to mechanical influences. Fired-on black solder painting. Dull surface. Relatively insensitive.

Opaque enamel paints applied with a brush and fired on in a muffle furnace at approx. 500°C, made of coloring, also opacifying metal oxides.

Fluxing agents: quartz and potash. Insoluble. Transparent enamel colors: Due to greater proportion of fluxing agents than in enamel paints.
Glass grinding: Wheel grinding on cold glass. Grinding off facets; grinding in e.g. shells or spheres. Pressing the glass against large, horizontally fast rotating iron wheels (for all flat glass surfaces). Drive by wheel puller on flywheel or mechanically by water power. Processing using abrasive powder (sand, emery) and water. Ornamental grinding on the edges of large, vertically running stone and wooden wheels.

Gradations: Rough or coarse sanding, clean or clear sanding. Polishing and beading by pumice stone. Tin ash, cork, felt, leather and lead or wooden discs. Classification of workmen into corner cutters/facet cutters and kuglers (balls and olives). Cutting shapes: Arcade, eye, brilliant, flat, hair, hollow, wedge, ball. Olive, ornamental diamond, peel, star, ray, turban, honeycomb and roller cuts. Stonework, brilliance.

Glass cutting: wheel cutting on cold glass with small and therefore mobile, relatively slowly rotating cutting device. Deep cut: Engraving ("cutting") of decorative patterns by a horizontally rotating copper wheel driven by a treadle device using oil and emery.
The glass is held free by hand, with limited visibility, and decorated by eye; at most, a drawing or copperplate engraving is pressed onto the inside wall of the glass. Always matte cut. Semi-matte cut by using wooden wheels.