:: ART GLASS MUSEUMS A - E
Glass museums, art glass exhibtions and history A-G.
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The museum collection includes African, Americana, Chinese, Cuban, Decorative Art, Early American, Florida history and a sculptural garden. The Decorative Art section includes an extensive collection of American Brilliant Cut glass. Location: 353 S. Nova Road Daytona Beach Florida 32114 USA
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The Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum has an Applied Arts collection which includes examples of ceramics, jewelry, metal work, art glass, furniture, and textiles. British and Continental glassware from the 17th Century to present day are part of the collections. Venetian glass is also included. Location: Schoolhill Aberdeen AB1D 1FQ United Kingdom
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Glassware and ceramic museum of Iran "Abgine" Location: Shahrake Qarb Tehran Iran
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This is the only museum in Russia which deals with historic and contemporary decorative - applied and folk art. Exhibitions include a large collection of toys, lacquer boxes, furniture, porcelain, glassware from Russian glass factories and more. Location: Delegatskaja Street 3 Moscow 127473 Russia
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The area was known for its historic glass works including Challinor & Taylor, Richards & Hartley and Tarentum Glass. The pressed glass of these three companies is exhibited along with the work from 2 bottle companies and two mirror companies. Location: 224 East Seventh Ave Tarentum Pennsylvania 15084 USA
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Alvar Aalto Museum, a special museum of architecture, was founded in 1966. It is housed in a building designed by Alvar Aalto and completed in 1973. The museum has also been in charge of the Muuratsalo Experimental House since 1994. Alvar Aalto was Finlands most famous designer. He was sometimes called the father of Modernism. His work includes architecture, furniture and glassware. He designed glass for Iitalla. Location:
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The museum has a small but interesting collection of Swedish glass from major glass works including Orrefors and Kosta Boda. Location: 1900 Pattison Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19145 USA
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A private collection of over 12,000 pieces of
Anchor Hocking Glass made between 1920 and the present day. Location: 6126 Bear Branch Drive San Antonio Texas 78222 USA
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This center is committed to building a collection of unique works on paper. A secondary major area of collecting is contemporary objects in craft including teapots, baskets, turned wood objects, studio glass, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry. Location: 501 East 9th Street Little Rock Arkansas 72202 USA
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A presentation of visual images of art glass from a variety of glass works and in different forms. Excellent photographs of interesting art glass. Location:
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This institute has glass from ancient times to the modern period. The collection of 4000 features a collection of cups, plates, and pressed milk glass. Location: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois 60603-6404 USA
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The museum holds a collection of glassware with more than 200 items of important artists from the early 20th Century. Emile Galle, Rene Lalique, the Daum Brothers and Charles Schnieder are some of the important glass artists/designers presented. Location: C/Gibralter 14 Salamanca 37008 Spain
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A pictorial history of lampworking in America by Bohemian glass blowers. The gallery features photographs of the lampworkers, their tools and the work including ornaments, vases, stemware, cast crystal images, flowers and more. Location: 253 West Main Street Gouverneur New York 13642 USA
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The museum presents 20th century American art, Southeast American and Southern Appalachian paintings, prints, sculpture, and crafts including glass by Richard Jolley, Richard Ritter and others. Location: 2 South Pack Square Asheville North Carolina 28802 USA
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A collection of Austria's important contributors to the worth of applied arts and design. The art glass collection includes presentations on the Imperial and Royal Monarchy which reached an apex in quality and variety around the time of the 19th century. Location: Stubenring 5 Vienna 1010 Austria
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The museum offers over 100,000 pieces of art glass from Cambridge, Heisey, Fenton, Westmoreland, and Degenhart. In addition, pottery from Weller, Shawnee, Roseville, and Mc Cloy along with hand painted porcelian of R. S. Prussia are exhibited. Location: 805 Cumberland Street Caldwell Ohio United States of America
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American, Irish, English and other European art and production glass is included in the 650 piece collection. Location: 10 Art Museum Drive Baltimore Maryland 21218 USA
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The museum features 250 objects on display, all these drawn either from the private collection of Angelo Barovier and from the company.
representing products from 1880 to 1970. Most of the pieces are the work of Ercole Barovier. Accessible is a vast archive of photos, drawings, and documents from an extended period. Location: Palazzo Contarini Murano, Venice 30141 Italy
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The musuem if poised to be the Pacific Northwest's center for the fine art of craft and design. It is a regional museum that adds voices of artisans to the national and international conversation on craft. A quarterly newsletter is provided with membership Location: 510 Bellevue Way NE Bellevue Washington 98004 USA
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This is a premium collection of early American glass.
There are over 7000 works in glass from the periods 1790 to 1950. There is emphasis on Vermont and American blown and art glass including over 1000 pressed goblets produced between 1840 -1900. There are also 200 salt dishes dating to 1820's to 1850's. Location: 75 West Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201 USA
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The museum has the finest collection of paperweights in the world. There are 1400 paperweights on display along with 140 glass drinking vessels. American, Asian and European glass is included in the collection. Location: 165 North Park Avenue Neenah Wisconsin 54956 USA
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The museum has a collection of 21,000 works of art. Paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative arts are represented from many diverse cultures.
Studio glass artists include Harvey Littleton, James Van Deurzen, Stephens Rolfe Powell, Toots Zynsky, David Hutchhausen, Curtis Brock, William Morris and Dale Chihuly. Location: 2000 Eight Avenue North Birmingham Alabama 35203 USA
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They have a growing collection of important works from the Arts & Crafts era. This collection is augmented with 20th Century and contemporary craft and applied arts. Location: Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbia LA23 3JT United Kingdom
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The permanent collection of 2,300 works of art focuses on 20th Century American art with an emphasis on ortists of the Pacific Northwest. American Realism and ceramics along with a small collection of art glass is exhibited. Location: 670 Julia Davis Drive Boise Idaho 83702 USA
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Their permanent collection includes a small collection of late 19th Century glass including Westward HO. Location: 2002 North Main Street Santa Ana California 92706 USA
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Decorative arts are featured at these museums in the form of ceramics, furniture, art glass, jewelry, metal work, paintings, costume and more. Art glass includes work from Daum, Wiener Werkstatte, Lalique, Galle and many others. Location: Royal Pavilion Garden Brighton East Sussex BN1 1EE United Kingdom
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The museum has a collection of over 176 historic glass in the form of stemware, vases and more. Location: Great Russell Street London WC13 3DG United Kingdom
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The museum has a large collection of British glass dating from the 17th Century to the present day. There is a glass blowing studio at the museum. There are two major galleries: Tyzack Gallery with historic glass and The Glassmakers Gallery with art glass by contemporary studio artists. Location: Wollaston Road, Ambelcote STourbridge WEst Midlands DY8 4HE United Kingdom
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An extensive collection of historic and contemporary art and production glass. Dominick Labino, Louis C. Tiffany, Douglas Nash Corporation, Frederick Carder, Steuben, James Gillinder & Sons and much more are presented. Location: 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn New York 11238-6052 USA
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An accredited museum emphasing a decorative arts collection of ceramics, glass, dolls, ivory, jade and enameled metals. The collection includes an extensive group of historic glass from 3000 BC to contemporary art glass. Location: 290 Scheman Bldg Ames Iowa 50011-1110 USA
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The museum management organizes it's exhibitions by rooms representing a synopsis of the periods from Art Nouveau to Art Deco to Functionalism. Chosen works include glass, ceramics, crystal, porcelain, silver, and metal work. Priority is given to French, Belgian, German, and Scandinavian art nouveau and French art deco. Location: Schoss strasse 1a Berlin 14059 Germany
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The museum features the following collections:
The Furniture Collection; The Fine Metalwork Collection; The Ceramics and Glassware Collection; The Collection of Textiles and Garments and Minor Collections. The Ceramics and Glass Collections includes 25,000 historic items. Location: Villoi ut 33-37 Budapest PF3 1450 Hungrey
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A museum set up and managed by the National Cambridge Collectors Inc.. The museum displays and promotes the study and preservation of Cambridge glass. Location: 812 Jefferson Avenue Cambridge Ohio 43725-2846 USA
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The museum has an extensive collection of contiemporary glass, stained glass, enamels and clay. Location: 25 Caroline Street North Waterloo Ontario N26 2YS Canada
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The castle contains over 100 stained glass windows designed by the Gothic revival art-architect William Burgess. Artist Gualbert Spaunders produced the windows between 1875 and 1889. Location: Cariff South Wales
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A distinguished collection of contemporary art including film and video. American art from the late 19th Century, French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, paintings, American decorative arts from the late 17th century to the present. Location: 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213-4080 USA
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A recreated Victorian manson having an internationally renowned collection of watercolors, prints, drawings, ceramics, glass and lace. The glass collection includes works of Whitefriars, Ravenscroft, Jacobite glass, Art Nouveau glass and Louis C. Tiffany forms. Location: Castle Lane Beford MK40 3RP United Kingdom
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A collection of 18th to 20th century glass with an emphasis on glass used in the settlement of Chicago and the Midwest. There are 1000 pieces in the collection. Location: Clark Street at North Avenue Chicago Illinois 60614 USA
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The museum displays quality souvenir memorabilia from Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Expostion. Over 2000 items including statues, lithographs, paper, glassware, china, procelain, tapestries, metals, silk ribbons cloth, bronze and other materials are exhibited. Location: 239 Whitney St. Columbus Wisconsin 53925-0151 USA
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The collection of glass at this important American museum includes 30,000 works of art in glass. The works in glass include those from
Boston and Sandwich Glass, Thomas Webb & Sons, Quezal Art Glass, Tiffany, and Steuban Crystal. Artists presented include William Morris,
Dale Chihuly, Cappy Thompson, Galle, Maurice Marinot, John Northwood and many others. Location: 245 West Olney Road Norfolk Virginia 23510 USA
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The museum collections include paintings and sculpture, engraving, decorative arts, prints, photographs, textiles and more. Art glass work exhibited is by Therman Statom, William Morris, Dante Marioni, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co, Lalique, J & L Lobmeyr, and Thomas Webb & Sons Location: 953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati Ohio 45202 USA
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A permanent museum of modern glass. A historic building featuring stained glass and on-going exhibitions of modern glass artists including the work of Lise Malinovsky, Jette Vogt, and Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Location: Sondermarken Frederiksberg Denmark
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The museum is housed in a 600,000 sq.ft building. The institution is an eclectic mixture of fun houses, a surrealistic pavillon and an architectural marvel of unique, found objects. The glass studio demonstrates the art of glass blowing and sandcasting, etching, cutting, blasting, and polishing to produce functional and non-functional art glass. Location: 701 North 15th St. Saint Louis Missouri 63103 USA
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The museum has an interesting collection of art glass from around the world. Baccarat, Steuben, Orrefors, Whitefriars, Iittala, Notsjo and Quezel are just a few of the glass works presented. In addition, individual studio glass artists work is included in the collection. Location: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland Ohio 44100 USA
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The foundation has over 1000 glass pieces from the 17th to 19th centuries consisting of English and American glass made during these periods. Location: PO Box 1776 Williamsburg Virginia 23187 USA
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A regional focal point for exciting and emerging art experiences. Collection includes work by
Dale Chihuly and John Nickerson. Location: 30 West Dale Street Colorado Springs Colorado 80903 USA
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The museum has an extensive collection of 18th, 19th, 20th Century glass from Galle to Louis Comfort Tiffany. Periodic exhibitions of glass are scheduled including "Fragile Forms", "Contemporary Color Forms", and The Sonja and Issac Luski Collection which includes work by Ken Carder, Stephen Edwards and Lino Tagliepietra. Location: Main and Hampton Streets Columbia South Carolina 29201 USA
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Redlands Historical Glass Museum Foundation will soon open its second Glass Museum. The museum willl feature Contemporary American and European Glass.
Location: 1153 N. Orange St. Redlands California 92373 USA
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This is the only museum in the USA devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
The mission is to advance the public understanding of design across the 24 centuries of human creatively. Educational courses on design are offered. Location: 2 East 91st Street New York New York 10128 USA
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At the Corning Museum of Glass you explore, research, touch, work with and interact with the glass. The museum offers:
the best collection of art and historic glass
hands-on exhibits
glass blowing demonstrations
try it yourself glass making
equipped glass working studio
Rakow Research Library
and a Glass Market Location: One Corning Glass Center Corning New York 14830 USA
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Collections encompass nearly 11,000 American and European works of art representing every medium. Strengths of the collection include the Hudson River School of Artists, 19th Century furniture and glass, and Modern masters like Arthur Dove and Marsdeen Hartley. There are 3000 glass forms with an emphasis on New England and New Hampshire glass. Location: 201 Myrtle Way Manchester New Hampshire 03104 USA
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The site presents in Danish and some English text and photographs on glass produced through time by Danish glassworks. Images of specific glass include art glass, stemware, flasks, lamps, bottles are presented. Location: Denmark
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The collection contains over 500 pieces of glass within their decorative arts collection. The glass comes from the 19th Century. Location: 1776 D Street North West Washington District of Columbia 20006 USA
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A museum offering collections of American painting, sculpture, decorative art, African art, Oceanic art, New Guinea art, art of the Americas, textiles, and The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection of Contemporary Craft. The highlights of the collection include art glass by Dan Daily, William Morris, Nicoless Africano, Dale Chihuly and Klaus Moje. Location: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco California 94118 USA
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The museum presents exhibits on glass making and its history in Cambridge and the Ohio Valley. Location: 65323 Highland Hills Road Cambridge Ohio 43725 USA
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The museum has collections of African art, American Indian art, architectural design and graphics, Asian art, European, Modern and Contemporary art, Oceanic art, Pre-Columbian art, Spainish Colonial art, textile art, and Western
American art. Contemporary art glass and glass produced in historic times are included in the exhibitions. Location: 100 W 14th Ave. Pwy Denver Colorado 80204 USA
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This is a specialist museum in Finland that selects and maintains a design collection. They hold exhibitions on design history and contemporary products and they also organize international exhibitions on Finnish art and design. Location: Korkeauorenkatu 23 Helsinki 00130 Finland
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The museum's mission is pointed towards contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, to architecture, to industrial design. They have a collection of leading international designers and a Digital Design Museum. Location: Shad Thames London SE1 2YD United Kingdom
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The accent in the collection and exhibitions of this museum lies on 20th Century design work. The Art Nouveau and Art Deco collections are outstanding. Their exhibitions include works by the designer Ettore Sottsass and the Alonso Collection of art glass from Art Nouveau to Studio Glass. Location: Jan Breydel Straat 5 Gent 9000 Belgium
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The gallery presents 50 artists with an emphasis on emerging and established artists. Ceramics, jewelry, mannequins, paintings, pastels, watercolors, prints, photography, sculptures,wearable art, glass art, fused glass, and formed glass are presented. Location: 1819 Del Paso Blvd. Sacramento California 95815 USA
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The museum is a tribute to the life and accomplishments of Christain Dorflinger, the creator of fine crystal and cut glass. The site provides a Chronolgy of the Factory which includes a history of the company from 1865. Location: PO Box 356 White Mills Pennsylvania 18473 USA
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There are over 6000 pieces of glassware from 110 glassworks from around the world are currently on exhibit in the museum. Location: 309 South Franklin Street Dunkirk Indiana 47336-1218 USA
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The museum has permanent collections of arms, post cards and Czech art glass. The art glass collection includes historical and contemporary Czech art glass in 4,500 exhibits. Location: Zamek 2 Pardubica 53002 The Czech Republic
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The museum presents representitive parts of the glass production at Eda Glasbruk (1835 - 1953) on a permanent basis. A new exhibition is created every year. Location: Folkparken Eda Charlottenberg 67392 Sweden
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The glass collection is focused on functional styles from the mid 1880's. The collection has expanded to contemporary European art glass. More than 250 glass artists are included in the collection including Wilke Adolfson, Herb Babcock, Alfredo Barbini, Ercole Barovier, Floris Meydam, Klaus Moje, Benny Motzfeld, Bertil Vallien, Sybran Valkema and many others. Location: Letter Berg 38 Coesfeld 48653 Germany
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A private collection focused on contemporary European glass which is continually updated by the acquistion of high quality international art glass.International artists of esteem are included in the collection including Dale Chihuly and many others. Location: Letter Berg 38 Coesfeld 48653 Germany
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The museum has a collection of over 900 glass forms by 40 artists. All techniques are included - hot glass, cold glass. Forms include tableware, stemware, vases. bowls, and monumental objects. Location: 17 Lai Street Tallinn 10133 Estonia
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This museum's collection includes ceramics, wood, textiles, work on paper, sculpture, folk art, Americana, textiles, porcelain, metal work, an extensive collection of Dorflinger Glass and exhibitons of contemporary art glass. Location: 1901 Mulberry Street Scranton Pennsylvania 18510 USA
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The museum features the glass art collection of Takako Sano and gifts by international artists working with glass including Javier Gomez. An information section "Universe of Glass" and educational programs related to glass are parts of the presentation. Location: San Jose de Valeras Castillo Grande Spain
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A museum based around major works produced for the World Fairs. Baccarat was granted the highest distinction with gold metals and grand prizes. The display of crystal shows the technical and stylistic developments of Baccarat. They offer foreign language tours in English,Japanese, and German. Location: 11 place des Etats Unis Paris 75116 France
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The museum features a large collection of glassware covering European production from the 15th to the 20th Century. Location: 8 bis Place Winston Churchill Limoges 87000 France
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This is the home of the applied arts collection of the Zurich Museum of Design. Objects included in the collection are objects made in glass, ceramics, wood, metal and textiles. The glass presentation begins in antiquity and presents art and functional glass made between 1880 and 1960 and studio glass thereafter. Location: Höschgasse 3 Zurich 8008 Switzerland
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The museum has a world class collection of old masters, modern and contemporary art, applied arts, and design. The art glass includes the work of Andries Dirk Copier at Leerdam. Location: Museum park 18-20 Rotterdam 3015 CX The Netherlands
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Collections include ceramics, porcelain, copper stamped articles and knives, painted wood, embroidery in gold, musical instruments, jewelry, national garments, and glass art. The artists working with glass include V.V. Dudin and G. Dninsky. Location: Rakatboshi 15 Tashkent Uzbekistan
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Their many exhibitions of applied art include textiles and glass icons created by Lithuanian craftsmen. Location: 3A Arsenalo St. Vilnius Lithuania
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The museum has around 270 pieces of glass in the collection. They also have glass on loan from the Corning Museum of Glass. Much of the permanent collection is American pressed glass. Location: Claverton Manor Bath BA2 7BD United Kingdom
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The museum's permanent collection includes a collection of Swedish glass designed by the internationally famous artist/designers and completed by master artisans at the famous Swedish glass works including Orrefors, Kosta, Boda and Målerås. Location: 2600 Park Avenue South Minneapolis Minnesota 55407 USA
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The museum houses an international collection of over 100,000 beads and beaded artifacts. The museum features permanent and changing exhibitions, and education and outreach programs of lectures, tours and classes. Location: 5754 W. Glenn Drive Glendale Arizona 85301 USA
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The museum was founded in 2000. Its mission is to organize and facilitate public exhibitions of Blenko glass and to promote a scholarly interest by preserving and promoting the history of the Blenko Glass Company. The designers are presented with other appropriate information. Location: USA
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The museum originated between 1862 and 1875 by John and Josephine Bowes. It has a collection of European fine and decorative art of the period 1400-1875. There is an emphasis on the arts of France, Italy, and Northern European paintings and ceramics, glass and textiles. There are over 500 items of European glassware including stained glass, drinking glasses, 19th Century exhibition pieces and a cabaret set by Emile Galle. Location: Barnard Castle County Durham DL12 8NP United Kingdom
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The museum has a reputation as one of the major glass museums in the world. An excellent collection of British glassware, along with 18th tableware, Victorian cameo, and modern studio art glass. A hot blowing glass studio is attached to the museum. Location: Compton Drive Kingswinford West Midlands DY6 9NS United Kingdom
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The museum foundation in 1793 has a mission to preserve the culture and natural history of Charleston and the South Carolina Low country. The collection include a vast array fo silver, drawings, and art glass. The art glass collection includes 18th and 19th century American, English, European and Roman forms. Location: 360 Meeting Street Charleston South Carolina 29403 USA
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The museum has a collection of works in all media spanning 1940 to the present time. There are 2400 works in the collection of paintings, sculpture, installations, drawings, water color, prints, photographs, ceramics, glass, wood, metal and fiber including textiles. Glass exhibitions have included "Fire to Form" presenting the glass artists of Hawaii. Location: 2411 Makiki Heights Drive Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA
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The museum has an interesting collection of New Hampshire based glass. In addition,Tiffany glass, Steuben crystal, and a major set of paperweights are included in the presentation. Location: 201 Myrtle Way Manchester New Hampshire 03104 USA
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The museum presents Danish and international industrial design, decorative and applied arts. The museum's collections, library and archives constitute a central resource centre for the study of design. The glass exhibition 2007 includes the work of Lene Bodker, Stig Persson, and fourteen other leading Danish glass artists. Location: Bredgate 68 Copenhagen Denmark
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A museum features collections of African, American, Ancient art, Asian, European, art glass, Native American, Oceanic, photography, Pre-Columbian and textiles, The Art Glass collection presents glass from the 19th and 10th century glass houses including Salviati, Barovier, Fratelli Toso, Galle, Lalique, Daum Freres, Tiffany, and others. Location: 456 Belmonte Park North Dayton Ohio 45406-4700 USA
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The museum houses a collection of European applied art from the Middle Ages to the present day with a special collection of design from the 1900's forward. Location: An der Rechtschule Cologne 50667 Germany
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The Glass and Porcelain Department houses over 1250 artefacts which include a collection of 18th and 19th Century glass and porcelain. Location: 18 Vuka Karadzica Belgrade 11000 Romania
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The goal of the museum is to present, preserve and provide education on the historical glass at glass works located in the state. The glass art of 14 glass works is presented. The Pitkin Glassworks and the West Willington Glassworks are just two examples of the glass exhibited. Location: North River Road Coventry Connecticut USA
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A non-profit organization which presents art glass created in the community by Mt. Washington and Pairpoint glassworks. Other USA, Continental and English glass and paperweights are included in the exhibition. Location: 46 North Water Street New Bedford Massachusetts 02740 USA
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The museum presents 18th and 20th Century functional and art glass. There are three elements to the presentation: the museum, workshop verrier and the Biennale of Glass. Location: Tarn Albi 15 France
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