Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass ( CMoG , pronounced in local slang [ 'si ] mɔk ]) in the glass industry location Corning , New York is a museum opened in 1951 with a wide range of exhibitions on the subject of glass . It is the largest glass museum in the United States of America .
history
The museum was founded in 1950 as a facility of the Corning Glass Works (now: Corning, Inc. ) and opened in 1951. It was initially housed in a building designed by Max Abramovitz and Wallace Harrison , which was part of the company premises and was damaged during a flood of the Chemung River in June 1972 , but was reopened the following August. In 1978, when the premises were no longer sufficient for the constantly growing facility, Gunnar Birkerts designed extensive extensions with which the museum could reopen on May 28, 1980. In 1996 new extensions began under the architects Smith-Miller + Hawkinson , which were completed in 2001.
Exhibitions and facilities
In addition to smaller temporary exhibitions, the museum has four main exhibitions: a Glass Innovation Center with a scientific and technological focus, a Sculpture Gallery with contemporary glass art, the Glass Collection Galleries with glass objects from different ages and the Frederick Carder Gallery, housed in a separate building, with works by the English Glass artist Frederick Carder (1863–1963). The collections include more than 45,000 objects from 3,500 years of glass history from antiquity to the present. Museum visitors can also watch glass artists at work in a hot glass show .
The publicly accessible Leonard S. and Juliette K. Rakow Library contains the world's largest collection of literature and other media on the art and history of glass and glassmaking. Small parts of the holdings are also available online.
Another facility at the Corning Museum of Glass is The Studio , a training facility for glass artists.
The auditorium of the museum is the largest event hall in the city with 750 seats and is often used as a venue for concerts, plays and ballet productions.
Other glass museums in the USA
There are many other, smaller glass museums in the United States:
- Historical Glass Museum, Redlands , California
- Greentown Glass Museum, Greentown , Indiana
- The Glass Museum, Dunkirk , Indiana
- The Jones Gallery of Glass & Ceramics, East Baldwin , Maine
- New Bedford Glass Museum, New Bedford , Massachusetts
- Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich , Massachusetts
- Wheaton Museum of American Glass, Milville , New Jersey
- Tuthill Cut Glass Co. Museum, Middletown , New York
- Degenhart Paperweight & Glass Museum, Cambridge , Ohio
- National Heisey Glass Museum, Newark , Ohio
- Duncan & Miller Glass Museum at LeMoyne House, Washington , Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland Glass Museum, Port Vue , Pennsylvania
- The Museum of Glass, Tacoma , Washington
- Fostoria Glass Museum, Moundsville , West Virginia
- Fenton Glass Museum, Williamstown , West Virginia
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Weston , West Virginia
- Mahler Glass Museum, Neenah , Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 42 ° 8 '58.8 " N , 77 ° 3' 15.5" W.