The Finnish Glass Museum is a national responsibility museum located in Riihimäki , which focuses on glass manufacturing, the glass industry and the history of glass art.

History 

The Finnish Glass Museum was founded in Riihimäki in 1961. The museum collection was based on the basic collection of 500 objects collected by the students of the Hämäläinen Association . The Glass Museum was opened in 1965. The museum was originally housed in the Danish manor – style Allinna building in Riihimäki’s Harjukylä district, built in 1919 by farm owner Rudolf Gestrin for his Alli wife . The building was designed by architect Oiva Kallio .

The museum moved to its current location in 1980, where the museum exhibitions were designed by Academician Tapio Wirkkala . The museum building was originally built as Paloheimo Oy ‘s peat powder factory in 1914. Riihimäen lasi Oy converted the building into a glass factory in 1921. The building also housed a plastic factory and a screen printing plant , and most recently Riihimäki glass crystal grinding . The current museum café is an old glass factory horse stable. The museum building currently has about 1,700 square feet of exhibition space . The larger changing exhibition hall used to be a glass factory blower.

In 2005, glass collector Markku Annila sold an extensive collection of 18th and 19th century glassware to the city ​​of Riihimäki for EUR 206,000 and it was placed in the Finnish Glass Museum.