Museums
Links & Notes

Rev. 2002-09-15, 2004-02-04, 2007-03-15, 2008-04-28, -10-30

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Much modern glass can be seen at Galleries

The number of museums with extensive glass holdings is small and in most museums the glass objects are scattered among other settings such as Roman or Egyptian. American glass is most often a few cut glass pieces displayed with furniture from the 19th Century. These are some of the exceptions I know of, let me know if you have suggestions of others.

.   If circle on map does not link, see list below - needs work

		Map and subject to change, not all circles shown have museums associated with them yet
	[Map created from public domain file of long/lat coordinates of state boundaries. Exported from Generic CADD. Map links created with CuteMAP]

[Alphabetical by State]

Washington DC

Hillwood (Smithso)

Smithsonian  Institution - National Collection of Fine Arts (Smithso)

Smithsonian  Institution - National Museum of History and Technology (Smithso)

Dearborn MI

Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum (Smithso)

Millville NJ

Museum of Glass, Wheaton Historical Association (Smithso) My Visit

Newark NJ

The Newark Museum (Smithso)

Brooklyn NY

The Brooklyn Museum Sample page of glass holdings

Corning NY

The Corning Museum of Glass (Smithso) http://www.cmog.org

New York NY

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design (Smithso) Summary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Smithso)

Cincinnati OH

Cincinnati Art Museum (Smithso) Holdings search

Columbus OH

Ohio Historical Center (Smithso) http://www.ohiohistory.org/

Toledo OH

Toledo Museum of Art (Smithso) http://www.toledomuseum.org/home.html  Sensational new glass galleries opened summer 2006 http://www.toledomuseum.org/Visit_GlassPavilion.htm  See also Dearborn

Philadelphia PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Smithso) http://www.philamuseum.org/ historic pieces

Chattanooga TN

Houston Antique Museum (Smithso) http://www.chattanooga.net/membersites/houston/ The Houston Museum, 201 High Street, Chattanooga TN 37403, phone 423. 267.7176  Built on Anna Safley Houston's collection of some 15,000 pitchers, thought to be the largest in the world, but includes much other glass

College Station TX

Student Center Museum, Texas A&M University, http://forsyth.tamu.edu/

Norfolk VA

Chrysler Museum at Norfolk (Smithso) http://www.chrysler.org/index.asp Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection  October 3, 2003 through April 25, 2004

Tacoma WA

Tacoma Museum of Glass, http://www.museumofglass.org/

Neena WI

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (Formerly John Nelson Bergstom Art Center and Museum)  especially paperweights with major collection http://www.paperweightmuseum.com/ 2007-03-15

 

*(Smithso) From list in "Glass" book from Smithsonian antiques series

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