Welcome to the Corning Glass Museum
I am "Blow Away" ( a new Netflix movie) by the scope of this place.
Not only gorgeous glass, but history of glass making that goes back to Egyptian times up to present, and ultra modern works of art. Plan to spend the day if you come!
What is amazing is the continuing scientific applications using glass, and the research still being done
with Corning as one of the leaders.
Welcome to Corning Lobby
Just pretty, (and a bit unusual)
This Lalique cat would be on my wish list
(if it weren't a museum item😉)
Chandelier made from butterflies cut from solar panels.
A closer look
This section of Islamic art glass is a huge mural made of glass mosaic.
This chess set is requested by visitors and seen year after year.
The artist moved to US from Italy, and he visits this place every year.
The artist is Jewish, his wife is Catholic, so he created this chess set to symbolize the religious tensions between the two groups.
Actually, the sculpture was so good, that it helped feed his family!
Tiffany Glass exhibits
(one of my favs)
This is a picture window in a prominent home that lets in the
bright light and beautiful scene overlooking the Hudson River.
(the guide said that the owner wanted to screen out the drab and dreary weather of winter)
This Tiffany vase was perhaps 24 inches tall.
The one I have at home (thank you grandmother Angel) is probably 4 inches tall
(very old)
See the next ones of 'very new'
Now for a couple of the scientific exhibits:
(by the time we were here, my feet hurt and we couldn't grasp all of it!)
The Fiber Optic Cable demo was great and nice to try to understand a bit more of these things.
Basically, the display compares the amount of copper wire needed to equal one fiber optic cable which is just a bit larger than a human hair.
These fiber optic cables are flexible and not brittle, like you might expect.
For added explanation.
We also had a good demo.
The first scope, now is called an Endoscope
(invented by a German medical student)
In the old days, the patient had to lie flat.
The fiber optic cables do not have to be in a straight line
for your doctor to see what is going on inside of you.
