Glass is a material that you can use for many different things.
Glass can also be a vessel,
for example a drinking glass.

Making glass is very complicated.
You must know a lot about the materials you need.
The most important material to make glass is quartz sand.
To make coloured glass, you add metals.
For example: iron for green glass or copper for red glass.

To make glass, you heat the materials
to a very high temperature.
The materials then melt together into a liquid.
When the liquid cools down,
it becomes solid.

There are different ways to shape the glass.
For example:
• Blow the liquid glass into a shape
• Press the liquid glass into a shape
• Form the liquid glass with the help of tools
For example with tweezers, wooden spoons or shears.
Shears look like scissors.

After the glass is finished, you can make it even more special.
This is called refinement.
For example:
• By painting the glass with special colours
• By engraving
Engraving means cutting or scratching something into the glass.
• By grinding with stone discs
• By etching with an acid
This removes the outer layer of glass.

In this new exhibition, Die Neue Sammlung shows
very special glass objects:
• Glasses for everyday use that factories make in large numbers
• Glass objects by artists
• Glass objects for buildings

The exhibition shows:
• how interesting coloured glass and colourless glass can be
• the skills that glass makers have
• the many different shapes that glass can have
• what you can use glass for

The design studio OHA in Munich
designed the room for the glass exhibition.
OHA combines design, art and artisan skills.

The exhibition also shows:
Die Neue Sammlung brings together different topics.
And it shows art from all over the world.