Today’s Photo Hunters scavenger hunt is glass!
This is a good one for us. We visited the Corning Museum of Glass a few months ago. It was wonderful! There was so much to see that I had to split up our visit into three blog posts!
The Corning Museum of Glass is in the southern part of New York State, in Corning, NY. The glass factory there makes unique materials for NASA as well as some of the dishware in your kitchen cabinets and the windshield on your cars. Our visit was so much fun that we want to go again!
Here’s a video of us discovering Corning’s new invention, the disappearing LCD glass. Boy, did we have fun with this!
Here’s a short video of two glass makers making blown glass for us!
My favorite part of the visit is in Part Two. That’s where I got to see the development of glass through the centuries. The kids’ favorite part is Part Two and Three, because we entered the “hands on” section of the museum, and learned many scientific things. Part One has a great video about how the Egyptians made glass, too. You won’t want to miss these posts– I tried to make it as if you were right there with us! This is the one of the best museums I have ever visited (and I have visited a lot!). Be sure to take a few minutes and read all three posts. You will learn things about glass that you never dreamed imaginable!
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April 5th, 2008 at 10:46 am
the first pic looks very cool!
i have a different take of the theme here
April 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am
That museum was really fascinating. Thanks for showing us some of it’s treasures. It is hard to believe that something as beautiful as glass is made from sand! I really enjoyed seeing the glass blowing demonstration.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:09 am
interesting. wish there is something like this in our country.
April 5th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
We’ve been there! We stopped on our way from Connecticut to Niagra Falls about 10 years ago. We really enjoyed the tour.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
This is a fascinating post. Thank you so much for all the information.
April 5th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
How neat! I can stand and watch glass blowing for a long time, lol .. it’s really cool. The first photo was just crazy, talk about a “bugs eye view” lol …
Maybe if I did an actual “themed” photo meme I might actually TAKE more photos? Hrm?
April 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thsi is a lot to take in in one sitting. I may have to come back to see more of it.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Oh my goodness. You totally deserve to win this week!!! Excellent photos and video even. =D
April 6th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Wonderful post, or should I say posts! A complete guided tour.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’m fascinated by glass and glass blowing. I used to watch the PBS specials on Dale Chihuly over and over, and I love to watch glass blowers work at Renaissance fairs. Thanks for the neat pictures and story.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Thank you very much for the kind words and the recommendation you left for me this morning on entrecard! I really appreciate it.
Have an awesome day!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
When I was little, glass blowers were a big deal at several tourist attractions around where we lived and I found watching them at their craft endlessly fascinating. I can only imagine by reading your posts how fun it must have been at the Corning Museum.
Thanks for the glowing recommendation over at entrecard!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Looks like everyone likes glass! Glass making is an old industry– we saw artifacts from B.C. 3500! I appreciate your comments. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and seeing my Photo Hunters post!
April 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
That’s funny, my next post is probably going to be on Corning too!