Glass Collection and Exhibitions Podcast

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This podcast from features interviews with curators and glass scholars about special exhibitions and collection objects at The Corning Museum of Glass. 
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Episode 1: Botanical Wonders - July 1, 2007 

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Learn more about the lives of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka and how they created the Glass Flower models for Harvard University at the turn of the 19th century. Glassmaker and historian William Gudenrath interviews co-curators Dr. David Whitehouse, executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, and Susan Rossi-Wilcox, recently retired administrator of the Glass Flowers Collection at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

Learn more about the exhibition and see the glass flowers.

 

You might also be interested in our Meet the Artist Podcast, which features interviews by the Museum's curator of modern glass, Tina Oldknow, with contemporary artists who work in glass. 

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