Baltic Sea Glass

Bornholm


Wherever you travel on Bornholm you will come across small independent ceramicists’ and glass-blowers’ studios. A couple of kilometres south of Gudhjem is one of the best: Baltic Sea Glass. It’s a large, modern workshop and showroom with regularly changing exhibitions.


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