Corning Museum of Glass

Sophia "making glass"
A glass flower
The girls running to check out the exhibits.
Gianna checking out a glass display.


Last week Sophia woke up and said, "Mommy, when can we go to the museum of glass? Kids and teens are free." (You can't tell me kids aren't influenced by television!)

George and I couldn't resist that marketing, so we packed up the kids and headed to Corning.

I was a little skeptical about spending a day looking at glass, but we had a great time.

The kids loved looking at all the glass displays. And there were scavenger hunt games for Sophia to play -- find a turtle in a glass sculpture, etc. She loved it!

And the exhibits were really neat. Glass eyeballs. Stained-glass windows. Huge glass flowers.

We also saw several shows. Two hot glass shows -- one where they made a pitcher and another, "You Design It, We Make It," where they made a firefighter's helmet. It was amazing to see the glass made. I hadn't realized it was more than 1,000 degrees. After the pitcher was made, they showed us just how hot the glass still was by placing a paper towel inside, and it caught on fire!

After we left the museum, we headed to downtown Corning. We had dinner at a local pizzeria and walked along the main street. It's such a cute town. We listened to a bluegrass band and ate ice cream cones in the courtyard. It was lovely.