Glass Museums

• Allen Memorial Art Museum
  Oberlin, OH 44074
  419-775-8665
• Bedford Historical Society
  Box 46282 30 S. Park St. Bedford, OH 44146
  216-232-0796
  
  The Bedford Historical Society, founded in 1955, operates the Historical Museum, housed in the former Township Hall on the Bedford Town Square on Broadway. The Township Hall was built in 1874; the Bedford Historical Society purchased the building in 1964 and began renovation to create the Museum. The Museum houses artifacts, books, maps, and artistic creations recording the history of Bedford Township
• Cambridge Glass Museum
  136 South Ninth St., Cambridge, OH 43725
  614-432-3045
  
  Museum is devoted to the products of the Cambridge Glass Company which began operations in 1902. Over 5,000 pieces are on display and include tableware and decorative items. Newly re-opened after a disastrous flood a few years ago.
• Cincinnati Art Museum
  Eden Park, Cincinnati, OH 45202
  513-721-5204
  
  Some glass included in the historical decorative arts collections.
• Degenhart Paperweight & Glass Museum
  I-77 & Rt. 22 Cambridge, OH 43725
  614-432-2626
  
  Established through the bequest of Elizabeth Degenhart with her personal collection of glassware and paperweights, more than several thousand pieces. Almost every category of American glass is represented, but strength is in areas of Midwestern pattern glass, Cambridge glass, and Degenhart paperweights. Hours: 10am-5 PM Monday-Saturday, 1pm-5pm Sunday April-October. This museum contains the personal collection of Elizabeth Degenhart, who was the owner of the Crystal Art Glass Company until her death in 1978. Exhibits include Degenhart glass and paperweights along with Midwestern patter glass and cruets. Visitors can also watch an audiovisual presentation about the glass.
• Fostoria Glass Heritage Gallery
  109 N. Main Street, Fostoria, OH 44830
  419-435-5077
  
  Small museum with many examples of glass craftsmen who worked in the thirteen Fostoria, OH glass plants from 1887 to 1920. Open Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday or by special arrangement.
• Hancock County Historical Museum
  422 Sandusky St. Findlay, OH 45840
  419-423-4433
  
  Contains art glass from 1875-1900 and pattern glass made in Findlay, OH from 1886-1889. The museum has permanent displays relating to the history of the county from its geological formation into the latter 20th century and covering all aspects of life, including Native Americans, Fort Findlay and the Ware of 1812, pioneer life, Civil War, natural gas boom, business and industry, Findlay glass and pottery, agriculture, transportation, Victorian life.
• Lake County Historical Society
  8610 King Mem. Road, Mentor, OH 44060
  216-233-8979
• Massillon Museum
  212 Lincoln Way, Massillon, OH 44646
  216-833-4061
• Milan Historical Museum
  10 Edison Drive, Milan, OH 44846
  419-499-2968
  The Robert D. Mowry Glass Collection, over 1,500 pieces, dominates the museum's Galpin House glass wing. The collection is studied by experts in the field of glass as a source of reference and authority. It has been pictured in such resources as Art Glass Nouveau by Ray and Lee Grover and John Shuman's American Art Glass.
• National Imperial Glass Museum
  3210 Belmont Street in Bellaire, Ohio
  
  An opening date of June 2002, coinciding with the NIGCS' Annual Convention, has been targeted for the opening of the Museum's first phase following a period of design and renovation. The opening of a museum has been the major goal of the NIGCS which, this year, marks its' 25th anniversary. The National Imperial Glass Museum will feature displays of Imperial Glassware as well as other Bellaire glassware from the Ohio Valley Glass and Artifacts Museum and will be dedicated to the glassware and people who worked at Imperial. Thus, the story of Imperial, the largest and most diverse of the companies that made up the American hand-made glass industry, will not be forgotten.
• National Heisey Glass Museum
  6th & Church, Newark, OH 43055
  614-345-2932
  
  One of the most highly prized collections in the U.S. Most colors and patterns in the hundreds are displayed. The Museum has been owned and operated by the Heisey Collectors of America, Inc. (HCA) since 1974. Located in Veterans Park in downtown Newark, Ohio, it houses more than 4,500 pieces of glassware produced by the A. H. Heisey & Company in Newark from 1896-1957.
• Ohio Glass Museum & Giftshop
  126 W Main Street Lancaster, Ohio 43130
  1-800-626-1296

Seneca County Museum
28 Clay St. Tiffin, OH 44883
419-447-5955

Collection housed in 19th century home and contains pattern glass, art glass, and Tiffin glass. Since the 1880s, Tiffin and other nearby communities have shared a heritage of fine glass production and collectibles. Examples of Tiffin glass and other historic local memorabilia can be viewed at the Seneca County Museum. The Tiffin Glass Collectors Club holds a show and sale in June each year, and the Tiffin-Seneca Heritage Festival ranks among Ohio's best.

• Toledo Museum of Art
  Toledo, OH 43697
  
  The museum was founded by Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901. There are over 500 pieces of glass on display. Boston and Sandwich and New England Glass Co. is the most numerous, but other New England factories are represented. Collections of Mrs. Harold C. Duckworth and E.M. Belknap are represented.
• Western Reserve Historical Society Museum
  10825 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106
  216-721-5722
• Zanesville Art Center
  620 Military Road, Zanesville, OH 43701
  614-452-0741
  
  Includes traveling exhibitions, Asian art, rare pieces of American glass and one of the oldest collections of children's art anywhere.
   

• Carnegie Museum of Art
  4400 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  412-622-1975
  
  Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania4338 Bigelow Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-681-5533Hershey Museum of American Life170 W. Hershey Park, Hershey, PA 17033 717-534-3439Collection stresses American decorative arts, Pennsylvania life and arts including glass.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
  PO Box 7646, Philadelphia, PA 19101
  215-763-8100
• Shippensburg Historical Society
  Shippensburg, PA
  717-532-6727
  
  Collection of 1200 pattern glass goblets representing examples from 1840-1910. Shippensburg Historical Society Shippensburg, PA 717-532-6727 Decorative American arts and historical objects.
• Duncan & Miller Glass Museum
  525 Jefferson, Washington, PA