The island of Murano is closely linked to the idea of Venetian glass. Here, the Glass Museum, part of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation, has been locatd in a former patrician palace for a century. Despite being possibly less famous among the large audience than other counterparts, such as the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States or the glassware section of the V&A in London, the Museo del Vetro in Murano is surely worth a visit. It hosts not only a rich collection

We touched on the topic of shell gold during our fascinating workshop in Cambridge with Dr Spike Bucklow at the Hamilton Karr Institute last October (see the blog entry here). I was immediately intrigued by the technique and wondered about producing shell gold myself. For this blog post, I asked myself what exactly the historical technique of shell gold is, when and where it was used and – more importantly – how difficult it is to produce. Shell gold is a technique for which