The Finnish Glass Museum will be open on Thursday, May 29, from 10 AM to 5 PM
Tamara Aladin: Coral / Blue vase, Photo: Ella Tommila / The Finnish Glass Museum
Jasmin Anoschkin: HotDogLipsDuck, Photo: Ella Tommila / The Finnish Glass Museum
CURRENT exhibition at the Iittala Glass Museum
Setting for Summer – Glassware from Decades Past
May 2–September 14, 2025
INNOVATIVE GLASS: FROM SCIENCE AND ART TO SUSTAINABILITY -SEMINAR
ON June 4, 2025
The Finnish Glass Museum organizes glass themed professional seminar on Wednesday 4th June. The seminar will explore current glass related topics in the fields of art, science and innovations.
The seminar program will offer interesting viewpoints to the glass art, designer/glassblower collaboration, glass architecture, deploying science into making glass art and collecting glass as a private collector. The seminar will end with a panel discussion, which will concentrate on future, innovations and sustainability of glass. Panelists are professionals working with glass in different fields.
The seminar is part of the Finnish Glass Biennale event week and
is targeted for everyone interested in glass. The seminar will be held in English.
TENTATIVE SEMINAR PROGRAM / Registration for the seminar
Finnish Glass Biennale 2025
Finnish Glass Biennale is international glass industry biennale, to be held every other year. The biennale will be held in Riihimäki for the first time from 5–8 June 2025.
The producer of the Biennale is Luovi Productions, the founder and producer of Helsinki Design Week and Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale, in collaboration with the Finnish Glass Museum and the City of Riihimäki.
The programme of the Finnish Glass Biennale includes a professional seminar, expert visits, exhibitions of Finnish art glass, and Satellite Events produced in collaboration with the local creative community in Riihimäki as well as in Iittala and Nuutajärvi, which are also known for their art glass.
The Open call for Finnish Glass Biennale programme is on until 16 February 2025. Finnish Glass Biennale will take place 5–8 June 2025. The programme will be launched on 19 March 2025. The week starts with Tapio Wirkkala's birthday on 2 June 2025 and there is a preliminary program for the week of events throughout the beginning of the week.
