Museo del Vidrio y Cristal de Málaga

This guide to the Museo del Vidrio y Cristal de Málaga follows an eighteenth-century merchant's house, one of the last of its kind still standing in the old town, into an unlikely second life. Restorer Gonzalo Fernández-Prieto, trained at Oxford, bought the ruined building and spent years bringing it back before opening it to the public in two thousand nine, filling it with glass and crystal spanning Roman, Byzantine and Persian workshops. You'll hear how he arranged the collection floor by floor, oldest first, turning the staircase into a walk through centuries of glassmaking. Recently, diggers next door uncovered seventeenth-century pottery kilns still buried beneath the surrounding neighborhood.