Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Corning Museum of Glass

On Thursday we got in the car and headed on our way. The drive up was a simple one and we decided to make our first stop at the Corning Museum of Glass.

The place itself is pretty cool. They have glass work that dates thousands of years old from all over the world and things you never thought were possible. The admission fee was pretty reasonable at $14/person, while the location was easy to get to. On top of the admission fee, DH and I also decided we were going to make our own glass pieces. As a tradition, I made a Christmas Ornament ($25) and he made a flower ($25). I was going to make the flower as well, but they said it was more hands on and I didn't want to mess it up.

This was the feature piece in the lobby - it seriously looked like Medusa.


It's so hard to believe that these are all made of glass! They look real enough to eat. Oh and just to give you an idea how big they were, the pear in the middle came up past my belly button and I'm 5ft tall.


I need to have this.


Great interactive demonstrations showed you how different types of glass products are made. Here they made a giant flower with petals.


Here's DH making his flower. It was so hot in there.