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Ware Collection of Glass Flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History » GLOG activity on July 21, 2010

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    This video, prepared for The Botanical Wonders 2007 loan exhibition to The Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the singular triumph of glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolph (1857-1939) and offers close-ups of the people and the craft process behind the Harvard Glass Flowers.

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Claire replied almost 3 years ago
Great video - it answered a lot of my questions. Is the collection still used for teaching (it must be superior to photographs, I would think).
HarvardGlassFlowers replied over 2 years ago
@Claire:  The collection is rarely used for formal teaching of college botany, but thousands of students and professors still visit to learn informally from the collection...and the glass models are still a superb teaching tool for non-majors, and thousands of high school students who visit each year.
lfin replied over 2 years ago
Thank goodness for the Blaschka's art, the funders' generousity and good sense, the the persistence of the Harvard Museum of Natural History and its leaderships' continuing vision  to accomplish this great exhibit for our benefit.  Without these gifts, our science and cultural foundations today would be different.

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