Marino Barovier was born in Venice into one of the oldest families of Murano glassmakers. The glasswork produced by the Barovier family has been documented since the 1400 and Barovier & Toso glassworks is still active today in Murano. In 1983, he joined his wife Marina in the study of the history of twentieth-century Murano glass. Marina and Marino Barovier have organized and curated monographic exhibitions on some of the most important designers of Murano glass including Carlo Scarpa and Napoleone Martinuzzi as well as Artisti Barovier and Ercole Barovier. In addition they were the co-authors and editors of the catalogues of these exhibitions, further defining the production of Murano glassmakers during the twentieth century. This was a great contribution to the limited bibliographic material available at the time. In 1995, Marino Barovier was appointed by the City of Venice to curate the exhibition Glass at the Biennale, held at Ca' Pesaro Museum on the occasion of the centennial of the Biennale. In 1996, Marino Barovier curated the exhibition The Murano Zoo held at Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The exhibition included most of the glass animals sculptures made in Murano between 1920 and 1970. In 1996, he promoted the new Biennale of contemporary glass titled Venezia Aperto Vetro. In 1997, Marino Barovier organized and curated the exhibition Carlo Scarpa: I Vetri di un architetto held at Palazzo Martinengo Museum in Brescia, Italy. The accompanying anthology, also written by Barovier, titled Carlo Scarpa: I Vetri di un architetto,
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