Links to sites of glass interest. Updated November 15th, 2010.

Please note that the links to the following sites are provided purely for the convenience of the user. We have no control whatsoever over their contents.

GLASS CLUBS

• The Association for the History of Glass.
• The British Glass Foundation. UK. (A new organisation founded to establish and preserve the public display in perpetuity of the Broadfield House Glass Museum's glass collection.)
• The Glass Circle. UK.
• The Glass Association UK.
• The Scottish Glass Society.
• National American Glass Club. (For the many specific American Glass clubs check out the links at this site.)
Vaseline Glass Club.

OTHER GLASS RELATED SITES

• Glass Message Board. (Keep up to date on glass matters and join International debates or start one of your own.)
• Cambridge Glass Fair (A glass collector's choice location for hunting glass.)
• More about the Chance factory. (also info on Chance Additions, a suppliment to Chance Expressions.)
• Scotlands Glass.
• Directory of Scotland's Glass industry over 400 years.
• Cortex book and web design. (related mainly to Chance and Scots publications.)
• Antique Bottle Collector. (Check this site for a list of UK Bottle Clubs.)
• Online Glass Museum.
• Hsinchu Municipal Glass Museum,Taiwan.
• Pressglas-Korrespondenz. (some English translations)

MUSEUMS

Note: Museums do not always have their glass on display; it may be advisable to check before you go. I understand that all the museums listed do have glass collections although it may not be obvious from their websites.

Items mentioned in brackets indicate highlights, not the total scope of the collections.

UK and REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.

Red House glass cone: Part of Broadfield House Glass Museum.
• British Museum.
• Victoria & Albert Museum.
• Museum of London.( Aldrevandini enamelled glass fragments. The new basement gallery retains the Whitefriars shop display plus a new section with about ten modern Whitefriars coloured vessels. Half a dozen glasses of the Ravenscroft period plus a seal so dimly lit that it cannot be seen. Take a torch with you.)
• Leighton House Museum, London (17th century stained glass from Damascus.)
• Nazeing Glass Museum of 20th Century Glass, At their Broxbourne factory (Wide selection of glass by the Nazeing factory plus glass from other British 20th century factories.)
• William Morris Gallery, Forest Road, Walthamstow, E174PP. The only public Gallery devoted to William Morris - designer, craftsman, writer, socialist and conservationist - and displays an internationally important collection illustrating his life, achievements and influence. Stained glass, wallpaper etc.)


• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. (Early to modern English glass; stained glass.)
• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam. (Early English and contemporary glass.)
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Cambridge.
• Oxford, Ashmolean.
• Ely Stained Glass Museum.
• Exeter.
• Nottingham Castle Museum. (Salviati)
• Bath, Victoria Art Gallery. (European glass.)
• Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. (Fine Roman, Chinese and English glass collections.)
• Maidstone. (Claw beakers and Anglo-Saxon glass.)
• Chelmsford (English, particularly Newcastle glass.)
• Broadfield House and Cone, Kingswinford. (Mainly 19th century Midlands glass and manufacture.)
• Red House Glass Cone. (Part of Broadfield House Glass Museum.)
• Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. (Ravenscroft, Art Nouveau, Whitefriars etc.).
• Turner Museum of Glass, Sheffield. (Diverse collection from W.E.S. Turner.)
• Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley.
• Manchester City Art Gallery. (Interesting general collection.)
• Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery. (Particularly scent bottles.)
• Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery, Chorley. (Includes 17th century glass.)
• St Helens, World of Glass. (Glass inherited from the Pilkington Museum. Glass blowing.)
• National Glass Centre, Sunderland. (Mainly Studio Art Glass.)
• Tyne and Wear Museums.
• Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland.

• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. (Large collection from Venetian to important early British glass.)
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
• Burrell Collection, Glasgow. (Stunning collection of stained glass, some other glass.)
• Perth Museum, Scotland. (Paperweights.)
• Aberdeen Museum.

• National Museum of Ireland (Collins Barracks), Dublin. (Finest collection of Irish Glass.)
• Cork Public Museum.

CONTINENTAL MUSEUMS in alphabetical order of country.

• Charleroi Glass Museum, nr. Brussels.
• Liege Museum of Walloon Art.
• Museum glass and costume jewellery in Jablonec n.N., Czech Republic.
• Glass Museum,Novy Bor, Czech Republic.
• Glass museum, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic.
• Historical Pharmacy Museum, Prague.
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
• Danish Glassworks Museum.
• Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark. (Contemporary Glass.)
• Finnish Glass Museum.
• Louvre, Paris.
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris.
• Cluny Museum, Paris. (Early stained glass, Rock crystal.)
• Lyon Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilisation.
• Rheinbach Glass Museum, Germany.
• The Roman-Germanic Museum, and other Cologne museums.
• Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
• Rippl Ronai museum Káposvár, Hungary.
• Lithuanian Museum of Applied Art.
• Swedish glass, Kosta and Orrefors factories.
• Swedish glass, Smalandsmuseum.
• Murano Glass Museum.

MUSEUMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

• Damascus National Museum (Syria). (The BM+ of Syria. Early middle-eastern glass and much else.)
• Tehran (Iran) Ceramics and Glassware museum. (Early middle-eastern glass, splendid building.)
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (Glass through the ages; much Roman.)
• Jerusalem, Chagall windows. (In the hospital chapel. Big "Wow!" factor.)
• The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. (Glass and enamels, particularly watches.)

AMERICAN/CANADIAN and OTHER MUSEUMS WORLDWIDE

• A listing of all American Glass Museums. (listed State by State.)
  BELOW ARE SOME OF THE BEST.
• Corning Museum of Glass. (International Mecca - collection of the finest glass. Glass blowing.)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Highly important early English glass)
• Carnegie Museum of Art.
• Chrysler Museum of Art. (10,000 pieces including UK, France etc.)
• The Toledo Museum of Art. (Large general collection, some early English.)
The new Toledo Museum of Glass, interior view.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art.(I am told that most of their glass is not on show - check?)
• Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.(Fine collection of Roman glass. For a nice sequence on Roman glass see Glassmaking in Roman Times.)
Tiffany window, Smith Museum of Stained Glass, Chicago.
• WheatonArts Museum of American Glass. (Great general collection of over 7000 pieces. Glass blowing.)
• New Bedford Museum of Glass. (Mt. Washington and Pairpoint glass. Glass lamps.)
• Oglebay Institute Glass Museum. (American glass. World's largest glass covered urn. Glass blowing.)
• Sandwich Glass Museum. (Extensive collection. Glass blowing.)
• New Orleans Museum of Art.(Large general collection, 12,000 items. Also the Newcome Art Gallery (Tiffany windows) and the Pharmacy Museum (Spectacles etc.)
• Newark Museum. (Ancient glass inc. 2-handled Ennion cup.)
• Art Institute of Chicago. ( Huge paperweight collection.)
• Tacoma Institute of Glass. (Modern studio glass.)
• Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, Chicago. (Tiffany and much else to admire.)

• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. (English glass, paperweights.)
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. (Crown Crystal Glass.)
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (Early English glass.)