In Sandwich, Massachusetts, the Sandwich Glass Museum centers on the town’s glassmaking past, especially rare nineteenth-century pieces associated with the Boston and Sandwich Glass Factory founded by Deming Jarves in 1825. Through exhibits on how glass was made and colored, it traces Sandwich’s rise as an important American glassmaking center and highlights the works’ pressed lead-based glass and use of color within Victorian-era manufacture and design. A working hot shop demonstrates blowing, shaping, mold-forming, and the use of colored frit, while rotating exhibitions of contemporary studio glass connect the area’s industrial heritage to an ongoing craft tradition.

Sandwich, Massachusetts · USA