This is the home of the world-famous Swedish glassworks – 11 glassworks, each with its own image and its own atmosphere.
Glassblower at Kingdom of Crystal in Småland
Photo: Glasriket/Kingdom of Crystal
You are welcome to visit the smeltries all year round, to follow the fascinating process of skilled glassblowers turning red-hot molten glass into beautiful crystal glassware and colourful works of art.
The glass shops are filled with slight seconds at extremely reasonable prices. Hand-blown glass is never exactly the same, but the glassware on the shelves still carries the quality mark of the glassworks. At the exhibitions and works museums, new and challenging designs are displayed side by side with unique collections of antique glassware. The Kingdom of Crystal, which offers visitors a wide range of enjoy-able sights and shopping in a genuine historical setting, is one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions. Glaskonst (The Art of Glass) is Sweden’s most extensive art glassware exhibition. Exhibitions will be held at all our glassworks throughout the summer. Sweden's entire world-class art glassware design team will take part in this major art event, which opened with a collective reception on April 23-24 and continue until September 4.
A party where guests seated at long tables in the smeltry can enjoy a traditional menu, singing, music and glasses filled with foaming drinks. As well as "hyttsill" parties for the general public during the summer (see to the right); we also arrange "hyttsill" evenings for companies, groups and conference organisers throughout the year.
Sweden is known worldwide as one of the leading countries for design in a broad sense – in furniture, interiors, glass, textiles, ceramics, wood, metal and other fields.
Of Sweden´s nine million inhabitants, no less than eight million live in the southernmost quarter of the country. While distances in the vast north of Sweden are great, southern Sweden is more easily and conveniently travelled, offering a plethora of pleasant and enriching experiences whatever your interests and preferences may be.
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