Sandwich Glass Museum
It has a furnace for clear glass heated to 2200 deg F that it runs 24x7 that shuts down only once every five years, and a computerized annealing oven to slowly cool down new creations over a full day to help prevent cracking.
Live demonstrations of the craft of glassblowing are held every hour on the hour and last for 15 minutes. The demonstrations include glass-blowing, shaping, mold-forming and adding bits of glass color known as frit. The objects created during the demo change day to day, influenced by the time of year and nearby holidays. The museum also has a historical movie that plays once per hour, as well as a series of galleries each focused on a time period or glass creation techniques.
There is a shop at the end featuring contemporary studio glass, primarily from regional artists, as well as museum-created items.
References
- ^ Harriet Buxton Barbour, The Town That Glass Built, Houghton Mifflin Co. (Boston), 1948
- ^ Sandwich Glass Museum