Families Explore: Beads This Sunday, October 27, from 12-4pm, experience the cultural history of beads and beadmaking. Tour the Museum’s major exhibition, Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead, using a family activity sheet. Decorate and trade … Read more →
Don’t miss your last chance to go to Glass Camp at The Corning Museum of Glass this summer! Our Art Experts camp for 12-13 year olds during the week of August 5 is filling up fast! So far this summer, … Read more →
In 1968, Dr. Robert Brill, the Museum’s Research Scientist Emeritus, participated in a National Geographic Society expedition to document traditional pyrotechnologies in order to determine how the comparable ancient processes may have occurred. As the expedition was passing through Herat, … Read more →
The newly-acquired inlay portrait of the pharaoh Akhenaten is now paired with the sculptural portrait of Akhenaten’s great grandfather, Amenhotep II, in the Glass Collection Galleries at the Museum. Ruling during significant periods in Egyptian glassmaking history, the pharaohs reigned … Read more →