Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen	1951-1955
Own pottery studio	1956
Associate member W.C.C. National Committee since	1978
Member of Crafts Council since	1979
Member of The Danish State Art Foundation	1978-1981
Professor at The School of Arts and Crafts, Copenhagen (Ceramics and glass)	1974-1980
Professor at The School of Arts and Crafts, Oslo, Norway	1978-1979
Founder of Glass Museum, Ebeltoft	1985
Chairman of the Foundation “Modern International Glass Art”	1985-1996
Present glass studio in Ebeltoft with Tchai Munch since	1980
Honours and awards:
Knighthood, Ridder af Dannebrog	1990
Gold Medal Faenza, Italy	1965
Balardini Prize, Faenza, Italy	1970
Gold Medal, Faenza, Italy	1975
Urkunde für hervorragende Leistungen, Coburg, Germany	1977
Statens Kunstfond, 3-årigt arbejdslegat	1984
Danish Craft Council’s Annual Prize	1991
Gold Award, The Kristallnacht Project, USA	1992
Member of the Pilchuck International Council	1993
Juror in the Kanazawa Art Glass Exhibition, Japan	1988,1990,1992,1995,1998,2001
Honorary  Member of Hungarian Glass Art Society	1996
Lifetime Honorary Member of Glasmuseum Ebeltoft	1996
Paul Harris Fellowship, Rotary International	1997

Lifetime Achievement Award, The Danish State Art Foundation	1998
Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, USA	2002
Exhibitions in various galleries and museums around the world since 1956
Selected Museums and Collections:
Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Schweiz Museum für Kunsthandwerk,Frankfurt a/M, Germany Landesmuseum f.Kunst, Oldenburg, Germany Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Röhsska Konstslöjdmuseet, Göteborg, Sweden The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan The Imperial Household, Japan International Museum, Faenza, Italy National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, USA Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany                                                         Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Novy Bór Collection, Lemberg Castle, Czech Republic The Pilchuck Permanent Collection, Pilchuck, USA Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón, Spain
Author of  the following books:
Ceramic Manual (Danish, Swedish and Spanish editions)	1968
RAKU  (Danish, Swedish and English editions)	1970
Pottery for Minors  (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian editions)	1970
Black Pots and Fire Pits  (Danish)	1971
Form & Clay  (Danish)	1974
The Glass Manual  (Danish and French editions)	1975
Modern International Glass Art (Booklet)	1984
YOUNG GLASS ’87  (Catalogue)	1987
Kyohei Fujita / Harvey Littleton  ( Catalogue)	1989
Glass from Soviet (Cataloque)	1990
Dale Chihuly /Klaus Moje (Catalogue)	1991
Joel Philip Myers (Catalogue)	1993
Finn Lynggaard GLAS (Booklet)	1994
Mutsuo Inoue Memorial Exhibition (Catalogue)	1996
Finn Lynggaard Keramiker (Booklet)	1996
F.L. 25 år med Glas (Booklet)	1997
The Story of Studio Glass (English)	1998