Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way
Corning, NY 14830-2253
1.800.732.6845 or
607.937.5371
WEBSITE: http://www.cmog.org/
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The Corning Museum of Glass is considered as the world’s most comprehensive and distinguished collection of glass.
The ART AND HISTORY GALLERIES show the most comprehensive and celebrated glass collection in the world. The galleries explore Near Eastern, Asian, European, and American glass and glassmaking from antiquity through present day. They tell the story of glass creation, from a full-scale model of an Egyptian furnace to the grand factories of Europe, and, then America, and finally, to the small-scale furnaces that fueled the Studio Glass movement that began in America in 1962.
The story of glass began more than 3,500 years ago and the galleries document the triumphs of glassmaking history. Several galleries feature a tableau that further illustrates how the objects were found, created, or sold. The first tableau shows how we learned about ancient glassmaking. It includes a photomural illustrating the reconstruction of an ancient Egyptian furnace and a brief film on underwater archaeological exploration. The Roman glassmaking tableau features a model a Roman glassblower. In the gallery of Venetian glass, the tableau, Facon de Venise, includes a film demonstrating a Venetian-style glassmaking technique. The tableau for 19th-century European glass includes objects from various World's Fairs, while the one for American glass shows how the press and molds were used to speed up glassmaking and make glass less expensive.
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