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STOURBRIDGE GLASS MUSEUM – OPENING 9 APRIL 2022

WE DID IT! OPENING TO THE PUBLIC: Saturday 9th April 2022 at 10.00 a.m. With thanks to our supporters, volunteers, funders, and enthusiasts from the glass world and beyond in helping create “The People’s Museum”.        

INTERNAL FIT-OUT BEGINS!

The fit-out work at the new museum commenced on 4 January 2022 and will be completed on 25 February.  The glass items will then be moved into the new cabinets in March.  Stourbridge Glass Museum is due to open to the public on 9 April 2022. Ongoing Photographs on the progress are here: 9.3.22 Danny Lane […]

THE COLOUR ROOM

The Colour Room premiered at recently and is due to be widely available on the big screen before the end of the year. Our warmest congratulations go to the star of the show, our very own Will Farmer of Fieldings Auctioneers (Stourbridge) and, of course, BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. Will is afforded free rein to propound […]

Isle of Wight Glass Museum Special Event

The Isle of Wight Glass Museum is delighted to announce the first of a series of events to celebrate the art of glassmaking on the Island. On Sunday 21 November, the museum will be hosting an introduction to, and demonstration of, the art of glassmaking by internationally renowned master craftsmen Ian Bamforth and Vic Bamforth: […]

New Book Published by Graham Fisher MBE

New Book Published By Graham Fisher MBE – In My Opinion: essays and comment on contemporary social issues is the latest work to hit the shelves from Graham Fisher MBE, who has collated another series of his podcasts for Black Country Radio www.blackcountryradio.co.uk in an eclectic collection covering a period of the recent past right […]

NEW BRANDING AND NEW WEB SITE

The British Glass Foundation (BGF) is delighted to announce that following a period of consolidation, and despite the restraints imposed by the Covid pandemic, major and substantive progress has been made in its ambitions to create a world class glass museum in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass quarter.  A complete re-branding has taken place and […]

Video Update

Allister has cleverly created a ‘where we are now video’. In his own words: ‘It’s been a year like no other. Here is a brief update of what has been happening on site at the Glass Museum. Meet the latest members of staff, get a glimpse of the designs for the fit out, learn what […]

WELCOME TO OUR NEW STAFF

A very warm welcome to our new members of staff, Anna Muggeridge (Learning & Public Programmes Officer funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund); Donna Owen (Volunteer Co-Ordinator funded  by National Lottery Heritage Fund) and Steven Hearn (Curator & Projects Officer funded by The John Ellerman Foundation) who will be taking up their new positions at the […]

Graham Fisher Alumni News

Congratulations to Graham Fisher MBE on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

Photographs

Check out these photographs showing the transformation of the White House Cone site from a derelict and burnt-out shell to the wonderful building it is today.  Amazing!  Well done and thank you to everyone who made this possible. White House Cone 1 October 2019 January 2019 December 2018 September 2017 IFoG at WHC August 2017 […]