In the spring of 2006, the Ernsting family opened the glass depot in Coesfeld-Lette. Since then, visitors have been able to view the entire glass collection. In the German museum landscape, the glass depot remains exceptional and unique. In the past decades of museum collecting, the stock of glass artworks has grown tremendously. Currently, the […]

The Contemporary Art + Design wing connects three generations of glass architecture that span 60 years. The 10-acre museum campus currently houses a collection of buildings designed by Harrison & Abramovitz (1951), Gunnar Birkerts (1980), Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (2001), Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (2001) and Thomas Phifer and Partners (2015). The 26,000-square-foot contemporary gallery is part […]

Over the past year, too, we have searched high and low in the German and international glass scene for exciting glass art to enrich the Ernsting Foundation's collection. Our trips to exhibitions, fairs, galleries and artists' studios were a great success, as the glass art we found there was bursting with creativity and professionalism. We […]