Just outside the medieval walls in the important historical suburb of Funtanalla, where the Arabs built their pottery kilns, is where it can be found: the Málaga Glass Museum. Since 2009, it has been run jointly by three families who love glass, and in the summer of 2019 it celebrated its reopening after extensive renovation.
Opposite the church of San Felipe Neri, behind a small cobbled forecourt, where the narrow path bends between the houses, stands a somewhat restrained but nevertheless prominent Spanish manor house from the 18th century. The building is made up of two parts and lies directly on the Plazuela Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre with its rustic façade, large wooden doors, green box-type windows with small balconies. At first sight one would probably not expect there to be a museum here. But a sign points the way to the Málaga Glass Museum. It is thanks to Gonzalo Fernandez-Prieto, his family and two friends that the building is still standing. They had been wrestling with the community for several years until the decision was made to renovate it and thus preserve it for the city. And its contents, an eclectic mix of exhibits, local, decorative art objects inherited and collected over 25 years, can also be traced back to the families. Over approximately 900 square metres, the museum is not kept sober as is usual. The exhibition stages the diverse glass objects from different eras in an environment that radiates no less taste and sense of style than the exhibits themselves. Most of the furniture dates from the 18th and 19th centuries and comes from all over Europe. Family portraits from the 17th to 20th century decorate the walls.