Fratelli Toso is one of the oldest glass factories in Murano.
Founded in 1854 by six brothers of the Toso family, known as “Cangioro,” it spanned more than a century of Venetian glass history, contributing significantly to its artistic evolution.

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From its earliest years, murrine represented the core of its production — one of the most ancient and complex techniques of the Murano tradition, continuously reinterpreted with remarkable formal and chromatic freedom.

Throughout its long activity, Fratelli Toso collaborated with important artists and designers while maintaining a strong family-led structure. Tradition and experimentation coexisted consistently, generating a distinctive and autonomous visual language.

 

Today, Fratelli Toso is no longer an active furnace.
It operates as a gallery preserving and presenting an important historical collection of masterpieces created between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Alongside the collection, the complete historical archive of the furnace is preserved: original drawings, commercial catalogues, technical documents, photographs, and archival materials that allow in-depth research into both the well-known and lesser-explored aspects of its artistic and technical production.

 

The gallery is open by appointment.