Holmegaard Vaerk

Former Holmegaard Glassworks, Now A Museum And Workshop Centre For Danish Glass And Ceramics, With Glassblowers At Work · Fensmark, Region Zealand

Holmegaard Vaerk is the old Holmegaard glassworks at Fensmark, roughly 8 km north of Naestved in south Zealand and about 1 hour 15 minutes by car from Copenhagen, reborn as a museum and workshop centre for Danish glass and ceramics. The works was founded in 1825 on the edge of the Holmegaard bog, whose peat fed the furnaces, and for well over a century it made the bottles, tableware and designer glass that sat in almost every Danish home. Production at Fensmark wound down in the 2000s, and the site reopened as Holmegaard Vaerk in the early 2020s, run by the regional museum. Today you see a large collection of glass and ceramics, much of it displayed as open storage, together with a hot shop where glassblowers work, and studios for other crafts. People come for Danish design, for the glassblowing, and as a rainy-day outing. The honest caveat: it is a specialist museum, glassblowing is not guaranteed at every hour, and without an interest in glass or design a visit can feel short.

Holmegaard Vaerk, Glasvaerksvej, Fensmark, north of Naestved, Fensmark, Region Zealand, Denmark

Open all year, usually on a pattern of most days with one closed weekday outside the summer season, daily in the Danish summer holiday, and closed at Christmas and New Year - confirm the current schedule, which changes with the season. Glassblowing demonstrations in the hot shop run on set days and times only - confirm times before you go. By car from Copenhagen take the E47/E55 south and route 54 towards Naestved, turning off to Fensmark, roughly 85 km. By train, Copenhagen to Naestved takes roughly 1 hour; from Naestved a regional bus to Fensmark takes about 15-20 minutes, or a taxi about 15 minutes - check Rejseplanen. Tickets are sold at the desk and often online; no timed booking as a rule.

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