Our annual meeting of members was held on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. We said goodbye and thank you to three long-time board members, John Manki, Vicki Rhiner and Mark Elliott. Taking their places are Walt Koskinen, Kevin Crawford, and Rick Conne. In addition to guiding the museum as we engage, excite and educate our community, […]
We could not have asked for a better day for our 40th Annual Arts Festival. The weather was perfect, the park was elbow to elbow with art lovers, and people loved the new beer garden on the back lawn. We know many of you had a great day, especially these artists who won prizes at […]
Evangeline Hoysradt Bergstrom was born in Ithaca, NY on May 23, 1872 and was the only child of Dr. and Mrs. George W. Hoysradt. She attended the Anna Brown School for Girls. John Nelson Bergstrom was born in Neenah, WI in 1874. He was the eldest of six children, John Nelson, Willis, Diedric W. II, […]
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass is pleased to announce the opening of a new study gallery. A private opening ceremony for the Mabel R. McClanahan Memorial Study Gallery was held on Thursday, June 19th at 4:30pm on the second floor of the museum. There was a public reception for the gallery opening at 10am on Friday, […]
The Mahler Collection of Germanic Glass The Mahler Collection of Germanic Glass spans three centuries of glassmaking in Northern and Central Europe with the earliest example dated 1580. The collection contains exquisite examples by some of the finest craftsmen of the day give testimony to the splendor glass achieved in the German speaking areas of […]
Mr. Ernst Mahler grew up in Vienna, Austria. In 1914, he emigrated to the US and took a position with Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah. A distinguished scientist and executive, Mr. Mahler developed the process of making cellucotton, an absorbent cotton wadding from processed wood used to bandage wounds during World War I and later in […]
In October 2011, the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum Staff and Board of Directors decided that all museum programming and exhibitions would focus on glass to better align its programming with its core abilities and permanent collections. Since that announcement, the museum staff has been educating visitors along a continuum of glass with nationally recognized exhibitions featuring the […]