Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is by Chris Gerling and Anna Katharine Mansfield, who direct the Cornell Craft Beverage Institute at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, NY. In honor of our special exhibition Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine, … Read more →
Tucked in the back corner of In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain During the 1700s, the Museum’s current special exhibition, is a wall of mirrored glass panels on loan from the V&A Museum in … Read more →
The special exhibition In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain During the 1700s opens with the story of lead glass. The first display case that visitors encounter holds two goblets, both made in England about … Read more →
While it is typical for museum exhibitions to show beautiful and functional objects and provide compelling interpretive text to describe the objects and their use, The Corning Museum of Glass decided to throw in an extra treat this summer. In … Read more →