As a center for extraordinary glass experiences, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass offers unique discoveries to ignite creativity, spark fun, and cultivate learning for all. We are pleased to exhibit glass art made by area high school students in the 2022 Fox Valley Area High School Glass Exhibition. After creating glass art in the Glass Studio, […]
Glass-making is all about collaboration and building communities. Likewise, our work and play at Bergstrom-Mahler revolve around creating unique, fun, and often free experiences and events for you, our community. This November, I am delighted to share that we will have extended hours until 8 pm each Thursday night beginning on the 11th. Stay late to experience […]
On April 5th, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass celebrates 60 years of serving our community as a free museum, where all are welcome to relax, learn and connect with their inner artist. What the museum has evolved to today was made possible by the generosity and foresight of Evangeline and John Nelson Bergstrom and a […]
The Board of Directors of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass approved the acquisition of ten objects for the collection at the board meeting on December 16th: The objects include seven paperweights and two contemporary glass objects. Jerry Silverstein and Robert Zimmerman gifted four weights: Jim D’Onofrio (b.1951), Arizona, USA. Blue Frog paperweight, 1997 David Graeber, New […]
Earlier this month, a group of students from Shattuck Middle School in Neenah visited Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, BMMOG, for a tour of the Paul Stankard, “Beauty Beyond Nature” exhibition, and an art activity in The Glass Studio. That sounds pretty uneventful and probably a regular occurrence at the museum over the past 55 years, […]
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 […]
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 […]