Visitors to The Corning Museum of Glass are often curious about how we do what we do here at the Museum. Who takes care of all that fragile glass in the collection? How often do you have to dust? How do you move glass objects without breaking them? Where did the gaffers learn to make glass (and do they ever burn themselves)? How can I learn more about the artist who made my favorite piece? And who is that friendly, tall American gentleman translating the Hot Glass Show in Mandarin?!
This blog was created to give you a glimpse of the people and activities behind the scenes at The Corning Museum of Glass. Please comment and feel free to ask questions or suggest things you’d like to know more about.
Visit this Flickr stream to meet just a few of the staff members who work here.
hello.
i saw a few videos of yours ( specially one about chunk casting) and played attention to the temperatures the speaker said abut melting the optical glass but i dont know if that temperature is in ªCentigrades or ª farenheith.
if you can halp mi with this thing i ll be thank full.
thanks for all you show about glass, its been a grat help for me and gave me lot of ideas that soon will put into practice. thanks .
fernando.
tvs@utenet.com.ar
We refer to temperature using Farenheit. Hope that helps and thanks for your kind words!
When I was in primary school in the 60s, we were told it would all be metric by now.
never underestimate British Imperialism!
or the Spanish Inquisition, it just goes by other names now…..