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Sandwich Glass Museum is a glass museum in Sandwich Glass Museum
/ref> It has a furnace for clear glass heated to 2200 deg F that it runs 24x7 that shuts down only five years, and a computerized annealing oven to slowly cool down over a full day any new creations to help prevent cracking. The live demo has variety of what's being created depending on time of year and nearby holidays, includes glass-blowing, shaping, mold-forming and adding bits of glass color, and the museum also has a historical movie that plays once per hour, and otherwise is a series of galleries each focused on a time period or glass creation techniques. There is a shop at the end featuring consignment and museum-created items.
Sandwich Glass Museum
{{authority control Museums in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Art museums and galleries in Massachusetts Glass museums and galleries in the United States Buildings and structures in Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich Glass Museum is a glass museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts
Sandwich is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, and is the oldest town on Cape Cod. The town motto is ''Post tot Naufracia Portus'', "after so many shipwrecks, a haven". The population was 20,259 at the 2020 census.
History
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, featuring a wide range of rare glass, including glass from the local Boston & Sandwich Glass
The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company was incorporated in 1826 to hold the glass factory built a year earlier in Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Deming Jarves. The factory was closed in 1888 amid disputes with a newly formed glassmakers' labor unio ...
Factory which was founded in Sandwich by Deming Jarves
Deming Jarves (1790–1869) was a 19th-century American glass manufacturer in Massachusetts. He co-founded the New England Glass Company and founded the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, renowned for its pressed glass, and the Mount Washing ...
in 1825. The Sandwich glass works primarily manufactured pressed lead-based glass, and was known for its use of color. The museum also has a live glass blower, and exhibits detailing the creation and coloring of various types of rare glass./ref> It has a furnace for clear glass heated to 2200 deg F that it runs 24x7 that shuts down only five years, and a computerized annealing oven to slowly cool down over a full day any new creations to help prevent cracking. The live demo has variety of what's being created depending on time of year and nearby holidays, includes glass-blowing, shaping, mold-forming and adding bits of glass color, and the museum also has a historical movie that plays once per hour, and otherwise is a series of galleries each focused on a time period or glass creation techniques. There is a shop at the end featuring consignment and museum-created items.
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Sandwich Glass Museum
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