I recently got to walk through the site which will become home to the Museum’s new 500-seat Hot Glass Show theater. Hot Glass Demonstration programs began at the Museum in 1996. The glassmakers worked out of a single furnace with no … Read more →
One of the most complicated operations of constructing the new North Wing is shoring the wall which is in between the Museum and the addition. The wall is an old one made from brick and concrete block. Brick walls are … Read more →
There are two sycamore trees growing near the entrance ramp to the Admissions Lobby of the Museum. As part of the construction on the new North Wing, a sanitary sewer line has to be re-routed between the trees to be … Read more →
On August 22 and 23, the office spaces of the old North Wing of the Corning Museum of Glass were torn down to prepare for building the expansion. Architect Tom Phifer’s design will add a 100,000-square-foot gallery space, making the … Read more →