Museum of Ancient Glass

The permanent collection of ancient glass is interesting to see. It’s amazing to see the different shapes and techniques used in glassmaking back then. The guest exhibition "Memento Mori" was very interesting, especially learning about Roman burial practices from the 1st to 4th century AD. The museum also has glass making workshops for visitors, but unfortunately there were no workshops when I visited.

We liked the museum. Recommended for visiting. Reasonable price (6 EUR, Summer 2025). As we understand, there are also temporary exhibitions, we were lucky to enjoy Momento Mori exhibition.

Less exposition that I hoped there is, somewhat repetitive but still amazing and a must see. Amazing timed exhibition if you're planing to be there on 2025 vacation ITS A MUST SEE! amazing exhibition on burial looked in 1-3 BC. Truly amazing

The museum is a big disappointment as there are repetite glass items and no history or storytelling for the local craftmanship behind. All two floors are absolutely similar and you cannot gain any other perspective on this material locally out of its tomb usage. The cutest thing is the wall drawing between the floors. I'm quite dissapointed!

Quite museum, loads of exhibitions maybe a little lacking in the story as to why so much glassware ? But we enjoyed our visit.

Wonderful large displays and good information about all the fine glassware that has been found around Zadar and Croatia. Excellent photos of the locations and videos of how some pieces were found and how the fragile pieces were reconstructed. It is also possible to see a glass blower in action as well as a glass maker producing beads and small pieces. In the small gift shop you’ll can buy some fine pieces made on sight. Highly recommended.

Recommend calling ahead if you want to go specifically to see the glass blowing workshop, as although their websites and signage state that it on weekdays 9am-2pm, I arrived around midday on a Wednesday only to be told it wasn't on that day and to come back tomorrow and it would be on 9am-2pm. I arrived the next day at 9 but it still wasn't on and there appeared to be noone around. After asking about it they eventually did a 5 min show for me at 9 30. I enjoyed this museum but I think they need to be better with communication around this as it is definitely the highlight of the museum.

Super interesting and well organised museum. A must visit when you are in Zadar.