Glass Museums

• New York Historical Society Museum
  2 West 77th Street and Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
  212-873-3400
  
  The pressed glass collection is mainly Lacy and colored Sandwich glass, including cup plates, vases and candlesticks.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Fifth at 82nd. St. New York, NY 10028
  212-879-5500
  
  The collection of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum extends in date from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century and includes approximately 12,000 examples of furniture, silver, glass, pewter, ceramics, and textiles. Present in the collection are objects made on American soil from the early colonial period, reflecting the settlers' keen desire to reproduce as faithfully as possible the material world they had left behind in England, Holland, and other homelands. Styles adhered closely to overseas developments, though regional schools of cabinet making did emerge rather swiftly in Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and Charleston. The extensive holdings were acquired from several gifts in the 1940's. Notable exhibits of Louis Comfort Tiffany glass.
• Brooklyn Museum
  188 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
  718-638-5000
  
  The collection is a representative one of pressed glass, much of which came from the collection of early glass researcher and collector Lura Woodside Watkins representing the New England Glass Co.
• Rochester Museum & Science Center
  657 East Ave. Rochester, NY 14603
  716-271-4350
  
  The glass collection is not on permanent display. It is representative with some Depression glass.
• Rockwell Museum
  111 Cedar Street, Corning, NY 14630
  607-937-5386
  
  The Rockwell Museum collects, exhibits, studies, and interprets fine arts and artifacts related to the North American West, Carder Steuben glass, and antique toys.
• Strong Museum
  One Manhattan Square, Rochester, NY 14607
  716-263-2700
  
  An extensive exhibit of pressed pattern glass representing the social and cultural development of northeastern America from 1820 to the present is included in this eclectic museum collection of once commonplace everyday items collected by Margaret Woodbury Strong (1897-1969). Her collection includes more that half a million objects. Admission. Open 7 days except for major holidays.New York State College of CeramicsAlfred, NY 14802 607-871-2282The Alexander Silverman Glass collection of approximately 1000 pieces from all over the world made mostly after 1900.
• Corning Museum of Glass
  Corning Glass Center, Corning, NY 14830
  607-937-5371
  
  Contains world's most comprehensive collection of glass. It is the largest in the United States devoted exclusively to glass. Exhibits include art, science and history of glass manufacture and use from ancient beginnings to today. 21,000 pieces on display. There is a 900 piece collection of Lacy glass from Louise S. Esterly. A large acquisition from George S. McKerrin is included. Hours: 9am-5pm 7 days.

• Greensboro Historical Museum130 Summit Ave. Greensboro, NC 919-373-2043The Robert and Capelia McKinney Collection of American Commemorative Glass which was acquired by the museum in 1988. The 650 piece collection begun in 1961 represents the history of the United States in glass. It includes pattern glass, novelties, flasks, bottles, etc.