Corning - CMOG: Flameworking Demo
The Corning Museum of Glass was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated) as a gift to the nation for the company's 100th anniversary. The not-for-profit museum is dedicated to the art, history and science of single material--glass--and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some more than 3,500 years old. The original museum was housed in a low, glass-walled building designed by Harrison & Abramovitz in 1951. Gunnar Bikerts' biomorphic, modernist addition expanded the museum's exhibition space when the now 68,000-square-foot museum opened to the public in 1980.
Corning - CMOG: Flameworking Demo
The Corning Museum of Glass was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated) as a gift to the nation for the company's 100th anniversary. The not-for-profit museum is dedicated to the art, history and science of single material--glass--and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some more than 3,500 years old. The original museum was housed in a low, glass-walled building designed by Harrison & Abramovitz in 1951. Gunnar Bikerts' biomorphic, modernist addition expanded the museum's exhibition space when the now 68,000-square-foot museum opened to the public in 1980.