Photo Hunters #63: Glass

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!

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

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!