Glasworker’s Museum

In Saint Nicolas des Biefs, the Glass Museum presents the history of the Gentlemen Glassmakers who settled there in 1660 to establish a major forest glassworks on the plateau, still called “La Verrerie” today, whose furnaces operated until 1780. An archaeological area presents a full-size reconstructed furnace from the period. Numerous archaeological pieces reveal the manufacturing of the period in the decorative setting of a large mural. And a glass gallery allows visitors to discover unusual objects or those from a variety of French and foreign glassworks. A second mural reproduces drawings from Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopedia showing glassmaking in the 17th and 18th centuries.