Nanny Still’s glass world attracted a record audience to the Finnish Glass Museum

Blue Harlequin series glassware designed by Nanny Still. Three footed glasses in the foreground. — Glass objects belonging to the Harlequin series designed by Nanny Still were also on display at the glass museum exhibition that just ended. Illustration image.

Measured by the number of visitors, the Still life exhibition has been the glass museum’s most popular exhibition for over ten years.

A total of 24,743 guests visited the exhibition, which was on display for three months. The exhibition, which ended on May Day, gathered around 5,000 guests in the last weekend.

Measured by the number of visitors, the Still life exhibition has been the most popular exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimäki for over ten years.

On display in the glass museum were glass objects dear to Finns as well as rarer works. Still’s production stood out especially in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to its colorfulness and rich design language.

A woman smiles at the light table. — For many, Nanny Still’s exhibition was a time travel to their own childhood, says Hanna Kivelä.

Kivelä estimates that the reasons for the popularity of Nanny Still’s exhibition are people’s hunger for nostalgia and the glass objects familiar to many. There was something to see in the exhibition not only for high-level collectors but also for ordinary people.

– At the moment, it seems that people are also very interested in the artist behind the art, and I want to bring out in the exhibition what kind of person he was, says Kivelä.

The Finnish Museum of Glass has set this year’s goal of approximately 45,000 thousand visitors.