Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains

The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains (German: Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges) is located in the old socage vault (Fronfeste) of Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in the German Free State of Saxony.

Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains
Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains, Neuhausen, Saxony

The museum displays include a glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, as well as a workshop (Werkstattstube) and other writing implements and tools of Ore Mountain glassmakers as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein Castle. In addition there are demonstrations of glass blowing.

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