At Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah, host Angela Fitzgerald delves into the collection of historic paperweights, Germanic glass and contemporary exhibits. She joins Executive Director Amy Moorefield to learn about the free museum’s mission and then takes a peek into the archive. Then Fitzgerald gets creative with Glass Studio Manager Taylor Moeller-Roy at Art Activity Day.
Then we see another glass creation standing 36 feet tall, 17 feet wide at the base and weighing close to 3,000 pounds! The World’s Tallest Glass Tree, created by artist Jason, Mack is a steel and glass sculpture he creates every holiday season at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Mack encourages help from the Walworth County community in building the glass tree. Glass bottles are collected at drop off sites around the county and then crushed and melted at two-thousand degrees. Visitors can then help drip molten glass from an iron rod onto the 31-foot steel tree-shaped structure as it spins past.
Then we meet Helmi Strahl Harrington who founded the world’s largest accordion museum based in Superior. Harrington makes that claim saying her museum has the most and the most unusual accordions anywhere in the world. The museum called A World of Accordions Museum, has more than 2,500 examples in her museum, not to be sold, but to be cherished. The oldest instrument dates back to around 1829 when it was first patented in Vienna, Austria…