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Glass Blowing Experience with Glass Master
4.5
12 Ratings
Venezia
Join a hands-on Murano Glass Blowing Experience with a master. Learn, create, and explore stunning artworks in our historic family-run factory.
Duration:
45 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Gino Mazzuccato - Upon arrival at the Gino Mazzuccato Glass Factory, visitors will be greeted by a staff member who will guide them through the experience. The factory, housed in a former monastery with a prime location overlooking the Venice Lagoon, offers a unique setting. The activity begins with an observation of the Glass Master at work, demonstrating the creation of glass art pieces. Visitors will then have the opportunity to blow glass alongside the master.
Throughout the experience, a staff member will provide insights into the history of glass, the materials used, and the production techniques.
After the glassblowing activity, visitors can explore the rest of the glass collection.
Please note that the glass blown by visitors cannot be taken home immediately. This is because the glass must cool down slowly to be tempered, a process that takes approximately 24 to 48 hours.
What's Included
- Glass tools
What's Not Included
- Private transportation
Additional Information
A great value for money for this hands-on experience! Your chance to try to work with the famous Murano Glass, especially the blowing technique which is the oldest and the best-known one. Working the glass is extremely hard and it takes a long time to be able to do it, but this is going to be your first step into this world. An expert glass master will take care of you, first showing you how the famous Murano glass works and then it’s your turn! The glass Master will follow you during the experience. After this experience, you will visit our showroom to see the big artworks produced in our factory. It is a family-run glass factory, the oldest one still belonging to the founder.
- On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
Location
Gino Mazzuccato
Fondamenta Manin
Guests have to reach the Gino Mazzuccato Glass Factory, located at Fondamenta Manin 1. They enter the Glass factory and reach the main office or ask to any member of the team.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Gautam_t
May 25, 2024
Loved it and affordable. - Beautiful experience, we all loved it and this one in part is not very expensive compared to others. Each of us got the opportunity to blow the red hot glass out of the oven.
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Heather_f
Apr 23, 2024
Super fun and definitely book through Viatour - This was really neat and I could have watched an hours long demonstration from the glass master. I was glad we booked through viatour because a lot of the others in our group had booked somewhere else and they did not get to participate and blow glass. The whole experience was really fun.
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Erika_n
Apr 12, 2024
Truly an amazing experience! - Our family was extremely happy with our experience, it was well worth the money and the people were very kind! We were shown by the glass master how a vase and a horse figure are made. We also got to blow the glass to form a big bubble, which we really liked. As said, all the staff was very kind to us and we were very happy and pleased with our choice to book this experience :) We definitely recommend booking this experience if you want to see a glass master in action and also want to blow the glass a little bit, with a very good quality-price ratio!
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Bethany_d
Apr 10, 2024
Great fun - We had a great time at the glass blowing experience. If was very interesting to watch and so exciting to have a go ourselves!
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Sarah_d
Apr 4, 2024
Must do small group experience - Informative and entertaining. We were invited to stay for another demonstration. My husband was not expecting the demo to be fun day
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Z6752oldominiques
Mar 29, 2024
Superb - Absolutely superb experience! We were lucky enough to watch a glass blowing demonstration and have a go at blowing the glass ourselves. The guide and the glass master were both very knowledgeable and friendly. I would highly recommend this experience to others.
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Nusa_t
Mar 25, 2024
Top!! - Good experiance ... Really real .. you realy get how glass blowing works ... Had good time with my mom and my sister ... Perfect!!!
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Olivia_d
Mar 15, 2024
Amazing time - We had an amazing time at this experience. Rocco was very informative, and the master was beyond impressive. Would recommend! :)
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Clare_j
May 4, 2024
Not what we expected. - The experience itself was really good. The staff were informative and engaging.
My issue was that the experience was sold as being for 45 minutes. We were somewhat rushed in and out all done in 20 mins. What we experienced was great but wanted and expected more. We also booked for 6 people but when we arrived they said only 4 people could do the actual glassblowing. Still don't know why. Fortunately 2 of our group didn’t want to do it but still charged the same price. They could make this experience fantastic but unfortunately I wouldn’t recommend in its current form.
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Moonlitediaries
Jun 8, 2024
Rude staff - The girl at the ticket counter was looking at us as if we had come to steal here, because we are brown people? She wasn't even Italian and looked like an Asian and was smiling at everyone else. One star for the rude attitude.
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