THE MUSEUM OF GLASS "A LA CAROLOREGIENNE": the recipe

ingredients :

Favourable circumstances	Choose a place, rich in essential raw materials for making glass (sand, clay for the pots) and fuel (coal for example). Designate the famous Jean de Condé to set up a glassworks there in 1669.
A very rich history	In an earthenware cooking dish - Charleroi -, bring together three centuries and about a hundred glassworks. Their speciality? Artisan production of plate glass and bottles using cylinder glassblowing. Their force? Universally famous glassblowers. Leave to simmer until the 19th century and you will obtain a global capital in plate glass, with production volumes equivalent to the whole of the United States.
A passionate collector	Take, Raymond Chambon, a passionate glass historian, and let him put together a remarkable collection to keep alive the memory of this rich past and to illustrate the technical progress achieved in glassmaking techniques since ancient days.
= A MUSEUM	Mix together everything post1966 in a salad bowl of the City of Charleroi, Raymond Chambon in the kitchen, and from 1973, serve the current Musée du Verre hot in a box of greenery.