What's New at the Museum

We're OPEN. Come on down.

The Museum is open again during our normal hours (Saturday and Sunday, Noon-4:00pm). We are temporarily unable to schedule Group Tours. Information will be posted here when tours will resume.

Planning Ahead

The museum has scheduled two events for the beginning of 2025. You may want to mark both of these on your calendar:

 

Workshop on H. C. Fry Glass Company - February 15
Members Barbara Jenks and Wendy Steelhammer will be presenting a talk on Fry Glass. You may not be familiar with this company, but in a few short years, they produced an amazing array of glass products, from brilliant cut glass to oven-proof dishes to stemware to art glass to industrial specialty items. The company even manufactured pumps to dispense gasoline! Be sure to come for this one - Fry is a neat company!

 

Parking Lot Sale - March 15
The Museum is planning another Parking Lot Sale for March 15th. The sale allows us to reduce the amount of glass that has been designated for sale in the Gift Shop. We have an excess of inventory, and don't want to spend money on storage fees, hence this inventory reduction sale. Mark your calendar. The sale will be for one day only, March 15th, in the parking lot behind the Museum. Weather should be wonderful. All proceeds will go toward the day-to-day operation of the Museum.

Meet Our Interns

The Historical Glass Museum was fortunate to have two interns this Fall, from a Cultural Resource Management course in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Cal Poly Pomona. Pictured at right, Jesenia Garcia and Antoinette Parker did mini-internships consisting of (20) hours each supervised by Kathi Jablonsky and Jacque Rocha.

Verlys Workshop was held on Oct 19

The Historical Glass Museum held a workshop on Verlys of America on October 19. This was a follow-up workshop to one presented last year. The presenter was Thomas Rigali-Roy, a long time collector of Verlys, and he and his partner presented the Museum with a wonderful donation of Verlys glass. At right is a closeup of the piece that Thomas is holding in the photo at left.
           

Thomas spoke about both the colors and treatments done by Verlys. Attendees were able to ask questions and bring items to share with the group. All who attended enjoyed the presentation.

After the presentation, Thomas and his partner Harold Cheyne III gave the Museum a donation of an additional 16 pieces of Verlys and 14 pieces of Consolidated and Phoenix Art Glass. The Museum can now proudly proclaim that the Museum has the largest collection of Verlys America art glass in the world. Thank you, gentlemen, from all our members.

June 8 Workshop on Fenton Glass

The Museum hosted another of vice president Bill Summers’ Fenton workshops on June 8. The topic was Fenton Crests, Sugars, and, by popular demand, a little bit more about Hobnail. Here are some photographs taken at the workshop.

April 13 Seminar on Paden City Glass

On Saturday, April 13, the Museum presented a Seminar on Paden City Glass, a company that is often overlooked, but which produced beautiful glass up until 1951. The Seminar was presented by Michael Krumme and Barbara Jenks. We managed to accomodate a nice crowd in the limited space available in our hundred-year-old building.

Shown below are the only photographs we were able to obtain, showing the glass, the presenters and some of the attendees. Click on the small photo to see a larger version. The Museum offers Seminars and Workshops several times a year at the Museum, and all are admission free. The public is always invited. Check this web site for announcements of future Seminars.

   

PayPal® for donations

We would like to thank all who have contributed this year. If you would like to help the Museum with a donation, we can accept donations via PayPal. Simply click on the PayPal logo below.

Members can use this link to RENEW an existing membership (instructions provided). DO NOT use it to apply for a NEW membership; instead, follow the link to our membership page and fill out the form and mail it in.
       

Article about the Museum from Redlands Community News

Our local "free" newspaper, which focuses solely on Redlands and the surrounding area, recently published an article on the Museum. The publication, Redlands Community News, has given us permission to post the article here.

Video of the Historical Glass Museum

Here's a nice bonus - a 2018 video featuring a tour of the Museum, with our President, Steve Barnett and Ron Stark, "voice of the Inland Empire". C'mon inside and see what we have for you to experience. Watch and enjoy .

For an additional treat, here is an older video produced in 1995 by the late Huell Howser. Of course, there have been many changes to the Museum since then, but much of what you will see is still on display.