The Corning Museum Of Glass

Studio, education and outreach - the museum educates people of all agesin a diversity of topics about glass. Our glassmaking school, the studio, provides classes, residencies, live online programming and scholarships and residencies to artists and scholars around the world. In 2024, the museum hosted 1,506 students, instructors, and teaching assistants in a variety of classes and supported artists through eleven residencies. On a daily basis, the museum provides a variety of glassmaking demonstrations for our visitors, which enables them to observe and learn about the art, science, technology and properties of glass. The museum expands this learning by providing hot glass outreach programs whereby we take our staff artists and mobile glassmaking demonstration equipment into a variety of venues. The museum also provides programs enabling our visitors to participate in a variety of unique hands-on glassmaking experiences. In 2024, a quarter of our individual and family visitors engaged in one of these glassmaking experiences. Our education department plays an important role in providing programs for all guests, as well as students in our local school systems. In 2024, the museum hosted 6,864 school children on field trips to the museum, developed programs for school breaks (winter and spring), supported the jr. Curators and cmog challenge programs, and hosted six educational performaces for pre-k audiences.

Museum shops - the museum's shops are designed to reflect and enhance the experience of the collection. The shops include products from around the globe and many works produced locally and regionally by a variety of artists. There is a wide array of products including fine art, steuben, pyrex and corelle kitchenware, jewelry, collectibles and books and videos, offered in our almost 20,000-square-foot shop, as well as in our online shops and steuben stores.