Sandwich Glass Museum

Sandwich Glass Museum is a town history museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, featuring a wide range of rare glass, including Victorian era glass manufactured by the now defunct local Boston & Sandwich Glass Factory, founded in Sandwich by Deming Jarves in 1825.

[2] It has a furnace for clear glass heated to 2200 deg F that it runs 24x7 that shuts down only once every five years, and a computerized annealing oven to slowly cool down new creations over a full day to help prevent cracking.

The demonstrations include glass-blowing, shaping, mold-forming and adding bits of glass color known as frit.

The museum also has a historical movie that plays once per hour, as well as a series of galleries each focused on a time period or glass creation techniques.

There is a shop at the end featuring contemporary studio glass, primarily from regional artists, as well as museum-created items.