Take in this insightful and reflective exhibit that offers you the chance to see how glassware and its uses helped to shape society, and how our needs have changed throughout the decades. Curated by Anne Kiphen, SHAPING SOCIETY will be featured through August of 2026.

We are proud to partner with Lancaster Parks & Recreation, Visit Fairfield County, and Destination Downtown Lancaster for this epic NYE celebration each year with a finale that celebrates GLASS! Sign up HERE!

Join us for a family-friendly street party where you will taste fantastic food and spirits at local restaurants and pubs, watch the ascent of the giant glass globe, and light up the sky with a spectacular fireworks show!

This event celebrates the importance of glass in Lancaster’s history as the community creates a beautiful piece of glass art for this fun party. The globe is a traveling piece of art until New Year’s Eve when it rises high above Zane’s Square and rings in the new year.

To create an ornament to be displayed on the globe, sign up for a Glass Town Countdown ornament class HERE. These classes take place at the Ohio Glass Museum in Lancaster. You can also purchase an ornament online at the Ohio Glass Museum website or purchase an ornament in person at the museum gift shop.

To learn more about this event, visit the Glass Town Countdown Facebook page.

Join us as we celebrate he history of glass during the Bottoms Up - four immersive days in Lancaster where you can explore the allure of midcentury barware in a unique downtown takeover event, where a rich glassware legacy meets retro style. June 26 - 29, 2025. We will offer unique classes where you can make your own mod glass projects, as well as live daily demonstrations.

Ohio Glass Museum will be open from 10 am to 7:30 pm.  Free admission to explore our galleries, watch a live narrated glassblowing demonstration at 1 pm, 2 pm, and 3 pm.  Then venture to our incredible Gift Shop full of colorful handblown glassware, jewelry and MORE!   

We will have two very special guest artists to pump up the volume… Justin Frehs is IN DA HOUSE meetin’ and greetin’ and signing pieces from 1-3 pm.  Please stop in and experience his incredible MCM watercolor paintings.  In addition to his worldwide-hailed artwork, he will be vending his wife’s, Els Tropical Lighting, handmade tiki lamps!  If you’ve been to any tiki bar worth its weight across the US, you’ve experienced Lena’s lamps.  Justin has his art in collections in every state as well as 30 countries.