The Corning Museum of Glass launched GlassBarge on 16 May
The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) launched GlassBarge on 16 May, which will embark on a four-month tour offering free public glassblowing demonstrations aboard a 30’ x 80’ canal barge specially equipped with the Museum’s patented all-electric glassmaking equipment. Following its debut in New York City, GlassBarge will then embark on a four-month tour, traveling north on the Hudson River, and westward along the Erie Canal, stopping in Yonkers, Kingston, the Albany, Syracuse, and Rochester areas, and Buffalo, among other cities.
A flotilla of historic ships will accompany GlassBarge throughout the summer, including the Lois McClure, a replica of an 1862 canal barge, and the C.L. Churchill, a 1964 tugboat, both part of the permanent collection of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Educators from the Maritime Museum will also share the story of canal life in the 19th century and how materials were shipped on New York’s waterways. Throughout its voyage, GlassBarge is under the flag of the South Street Seaport Museum and will be accompanied by the Museum’s historic tug W. O. Decker on the Erie Canal.
GlassBarge commemorates the 150th anniversary of the relocation of the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company – now known as Corning Incorporated – via the New York Waterways by canal barge to Corning, which would become a centre for important artistic and technological innovations in glass. In addition to sharing the story of glassmaking in Corning, the recreation of the 1868 barge vo...
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