Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Vacation Day Two - Corning Museum of Glass

We spent the afternoon on Tuesday at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Most impressive is the Heineman Collection. This couple collected all kinds of contemporary glass art over about 20 years, and the collection has been donated to the museum. The exhibition displays 240 objects by 87 international artists:






The musuem also puts on live shows of how glassblowing is done. In the demostration that we saw, a very nice bowl was made, and then trashed because there wasn't room to cool it down overnight.

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