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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
Cape Cod ...
, 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.
Sandwich Glass Museum
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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.
References
External
Sandwich Glass Museum
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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