The English edition: a couple of buildings from Nuutajärvi Glass Village, founded in 1793. Didn’t have time to visit and take pictures of everything because I was there with my elderly mom with whom we covered only one of the exhibitions and the store this time. So just quick crappy shots but the place is pretty and the location green and peaceful.
Cafe in the yellow building, a hotel in the red brick one.
This one was probably a hospital when it was built, later housed the glass factory’s workforce in eight small homes. Now privately owned.
Wins the nicest windows contest.
Some of the glass birds. Sometimes you’d recognise the breed, sometimes you couldn’t guess. Some are definitely imaginary.
I like how they’re displayed in the small wooden house. There’s birdsong played in the room, creating a nice calm atmosphere. The tape is as imaginary as the artwork as you can hear owls hoot while daytime birds are singing, too. But they’re all here at the same time, what do you expect?
When you look up from below you see there are more glass birds perched on pine branches against a sky blue ceiling.
Climb to the “bird tower” and you find a balcony with binoculars to do some bird spotting. :) (The birds are numbered and there’s a list on the wall.)
Tuula, rock hippopotamus