Frauenau Glass Museum

The Frauenau Glass Museum (German: Glasmuseum Frauenau) in Frauenau in the Lower Bavarian county of Regen, previously a communal facility, has become a state-owned organisation since early 2014 called the State Museum of the History of Glass Culture (Staatliches Museum zur Geschichte der Glaskultur) run by the Free State of Bavaria.

The museum was opened on 6 May 1975 by the founder of the museum, Alfons Hannes, in the presence of numerous international glass artists, including Erwin Eisch, Harvey Littleton and Sybren Valkema, with the highly regarded special exhibition Venini-Murano (Wolfgang Kermer collection).

[1] In 1982, the museum received a significant donation from the private studio glass collection of Wolfgang Kermer.

A selection from this collection had already been shown in a special exhibition from 1976 to 1977[2] and then remained, considerably expanded, in the museum as a gift from Wolfgang Kermer.

[3] The following artists are represented in the donation: Still ″a great friend of the glass museum″,[4] Wolfgang Kermer donated in 2017 well over a hundred hand-blown French glasses, typical of the long-gone glassworks in the to-day regions Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.