The Kingdom of Crystal Photo: Glasriket Every year more than a million visitors come here to a area in Kronoberg and Kalmar counties in Småland that includes the municipalities of Emmaboda, Lessebo, Nybro and Uppvidinge. Many return time after time. It is easy to understand why. To watch red-hot molten glass being transformed into delicate crystal or sturdy bowls is a spectacle that one never tires of. Here you will find well-known glassworks and brands such as Orrefors, Kosta Boda, Skruf, Mats Jonasson Målerås to name a few. In additon, you can enjoy the nature of Småland in its prime with its forests, lakes, stone walls and many cultural sights. These include Vilhelm Moberg’s emigrant district. Top 5 Little Rock Lake Zipline Via eleven stations made up of towers, trees and cliff ledges, you swish alo... Try glassblowing at Kosta ... Kosta Glass Centre offers hands-on activities for old and young. You can cho... Älgparker In The Kingdom of Crystal we have an Moose guarantee. There are two moose pa... Handmade Paper Mill In Lessebo Handmade paper has been produced at the Lessebo mill Ridesince a1693. bicycle Handmade trolley in pa... ... Come rent bicycle trolleys in Åseda and pedal out onto this typical forest l... Glasriket Updated 14 March 2019 Destination: The Kingdom of Crystal Publishing date: 2019-03-14 THE REGION hiking, biking, horseback riding, canoeing and shing in lakes and streams. Here you will also nd cultural history, the immigrant district as well as a large range of shopping and other activities. Why not ride a bicycle trolley on one of the old railway tracks, experience a genuine hot shop herring (“hyttsill”) evening, visit one of the many charming museums or take a course to teach Glasriket yourself the basics of glassblowing? The Glasriket is the Swedish name of The Kingdom of Kingdom of Crystal has something for all tastes Crystal. The region handblown glass has been and interests. made since 1742. Many well-known brands originate from here, including Orrefors, Kosta GLASSWORKS Boda, Mats Jonasson Målerås and Skruf. Together with the glassblowers, designers continuously stretch the possibilities of glass, and many glassblowing techniques have been developed through experimentation in the Småland blowing rooms. As a visitor you will encounter today both everyday glass and art glass of world-class quality, and you are welcome to step up to the glass furnaces to see it being Glasriket created. Visitors are coming to the Kingdom of Crystal to In the summer, you also have the opportunity to experience true craftsmanship, to discover try your hand at blowing, painting and engraving innovative design and to bargain hunt in outlets glass. Adjacent to the blowing rooms are and glass shops. Step into the blowing rooms. It well-stocked glass shops where you can bargain is inside amid the rumbling furnaces that molten hunt and exhibition halls where you can view the glass is shaped by skilled glass workers into latest in Swedish art glass. Glass Art – is the beautiful art. A fascinating spectacle! glassworks’ summer exhibition. A joint opening at all glassworks during the last weekend in April At many glassworks you also have the inaugurates the exhibition which will continue opportunity to try your hand at blowing, painting through August 31. and engraving glass. Or how about renting your own glassblower in order to actualise your own But beyond the heat of the blowing rooms, there innermost designer dreams? In the Kingdom of is also much to experience in The Kingdom of Crystal everything is possible, and there are Crystal. Here the nature of Småland, which once always many things going on in the blowing supported the works, oers opportunities for rooms. You can attend concerts, circuses and Destination: The Kingdom of Crystal Publishing date: 2019-03-14 courses, or why not enjoy a traditional hot-shop Kosta herring evening! Kosta is the oldest glassworks in the Micke Johans Konstglas Kingdom of Crystal. Glass The newest blowing room has been blown here in the Kingdom of since 1742. Today visitors Crystal, in Örsjö outside have an opportunity to Nybro. Mikael Johansson witness this spectacle and experience the became a master fantastic glass art that well-known designers glassblower when he was create. In the well-stocked shop you can 24 years old. Until 2004 he worked as a purchase Kosta Boda products at factory prices. glassblower in the art glass workshop at Photo: AB Glasriket Orrefors Glassworks. Subsequently he has Address: Stora vägen, Kosta worked at Pukeberg Glassworks, where he Opening hours: Year round. created his own everyday glass and art glass. Internet: www.kostaboda.se Email: [email protected] Photo: AB Glasriket Address: Örsjö 134 382 90 Örsjö Mats Jonasson Målerås Phone: +46 481 12409 This glassworks primarily Internet: http://www.mickejohankonstglas.se/ Email: [email protected] produces art glass and decorative glass, which Bergdala Studioglas mainly is cut, painted and Bergdala is the only engraved. Animal reliefs glassworks that still has a from Målerås are blowing room made well-known throughout the world. In recent entirely of wood. Visitors years the glassworks began experimenting with are welcome in to art work that incorporates both glass and metal. experience the genuine Photo: AB Glasriket blowing room environment. The shop is right Address: Industrigatan 20, Målerås next to the blowing room. You can shop here for Opening hours: Year round Bergdala Studioglas products at factory prices. Phone: +46 481 314 00 Internet: www.maleras.se Photo: AB Glasriket Email: [email protected] Address: Bergdala, Hovmantorp Opening hours: Year round Nybro Internet: https://www.bergdalahyttan.se/ Nybro Glassworks is the only glassworks in the Kingdom of Crystal located in an urban environment. Proximity to the railway was a priority Destination: The Kingdom of Crystal Publishing date: 2019-03-14 in its establishment. Opening hours: Year round Nybro oers utilitarian glass for both everyday Phone: +46 478 201 33 Internet: www.skrufsglasbruk.se and party use, in which form, colour and function Email: [email protected] are prominent characteristics Transjö Hytta Photo: AB Glasriket Transjö Hytta, which is Address: Herkulesgatan 2, Nybro Opening hours: Year round. the smallest blowing Internet: www.nybro-glasbruk.se room in Glasriket, is in an Email: [email protected] idyllic location right next to Lyckeby river. The Pukeberg atmosphere at Transjö is Pukeberg is one of delightful and the surroundings beautiful. The Sweden’s oldest and most two master glassmakers demonstrate some of well-preserved the best glass art in the world. glassworks. Here you can experience what a Photo: AB Glasriket glassworks area was like Address: Hytta, Kosta at the beginning of the 1900’s. The blowing room Opening hours: Year round Phone: + 46 478 50700 at Pukeberg is directly connected to the shop Internet: www.transjohytta.com and is open to visitors. The building also houses Email: [email protected] the Design Archive – the Archive for Swedish Design. Erikshyttan Three glass artists Lars Photo: AB Glasriket Sø, Maja Cunningham Address: Pukebergarnas väg, Nybro and Simon Holm try out Opening hours: Year round Internet: http://www.visitpukeberg.se/ new techniques and shapes in their own Skrufs Glasbruk blowing At Skruf all glass is made room. by hand down to the most minute detail. Much of Erikshyttan was established in 1991 in the glass used by the Eriksmåla, one of many small villages in the Swedish Parliament and Kingdom of Crystal. In the rst years they only the country’s made purely functional glass. Since then they ambassadors throughout the world comes from have extended the use of size, colours, various here. The blowing room is open to visitors. In the techniques and forms, resulting in a more artistic shops you can buy Skruf’s fantastic glass at and sculptural production. factory prices. Photo: AB Glasriket Photo: AB Glasriket Address: Marknadsvägen 3 361 94 Eriksmåla Address: Kajvägen 4, Skruv Phone: +46 471 41300 Internet: http://erikshyttan.se/index.html Destination: The Kingdom of Crystal Publishing date: 2019-03-14 Email: [email protected] Internet: theglassfactory.se Email: [email protected] Carlos R. Pebaque Design AB Glass artist Carlos R. Orrefors Park Pebaque combines classic The furnaces are red up swedish style with south again in Orrefors! The american temper and has vision is to create a created a new technique beautiful and attractive for art glass; "Cara" - a destination where visitors way of painting glass. in a sustainable and enjoyable way can become part of Orrefors’ Photo: AB Glasriket magical past and present through a unique Address: Glasblåsarvägen 6 380 41 Gullaskruv combination of glass, food, light, music and Phone: +46 481 32117 nature. Internet: http://www.carlosartglass.com/ Email: [email protected] The new glassworks at Orrefors is also the The Glass Factory Kingdom of Crystal’s rst outdoor blowing room, The Glass Factory today with walls of green plants in a beautiful, is Sweden’s only purely historical glassworks setting. experience-based glass museum, and its art glass Pay a visit to the museum, look into the shop, collection of more than view all the plantings, take advantage of the 30,000 articles is the chance to try glass blowing and then wind up largest in Sweden. with a picnic in a delightful setting! Photo: orrefors park Discover the interactive exhibition on the Address: Bruksområdet 1, Orrefors Kingdom of Crystal’s origin, evolution and Phone: 0046 709 99 60 40 future. In unique lm clips you will meet glass Email: [email protected] artists and glass workers who talk about the Kingdom of Crystal, glass and its signicance. The Boda blowing room located inside The Glass Factory museum is the museum’s hot, pulsating heart! It serves as a creative meeting place to which national and international craftsmen, artists and designers are invited to experiment and nd new modes of expression.