Weekend Blog: Camera~

[aldersprig]

This is another post about the Museum of Glass!

Not just because I didn't so as much this past weekend (Well, we DID drive back to Corning...) but because I have more thoughts.

There are two things you need to know to understand this:

1) I am not generally a fan of art museums, unlike my husband and one of my friends I was travelling with.

2) I got my first smartphone (a tracfone) at the end of December. 2016. Yes, really.

I had a blast at the Museum of Glass. Not just the history parts - I love history museums, absolutely love living history, and am really excited about artifacts from the past (This is why I liked the Met so much). I liked the funny glass sculptures and the concept pieces. I read the descriptions and even thought about them — though some of them I think they put more artistry into the description than into the art piece.

I was taking pictures. I had that cheap little smartphone out, and I took pictures of everything.

And, you know what? It kept me engaged. It kept me looking at the things in front of me. Even if I was tweeting, too. This is the most fun I’ve at a museum in, like… ever. Well, ever at a non-living-history museum in my adult life.

I find this fascinating. Especially with all the pushback in media about — ha — taking in too much media, sticking too much to a phone, to our computers — I find it entertaining how much having a phone engaged me in the event.

And now I have a load of photos. Prickly kitty!

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

That's awesome! :D

[aldersprig]

I had fun!

[sauergeek]

The first time I went to the Museum of Glass, it was with family, and about half the museum was closed for renovation and (as I recall) construction of an additional wing. We spent a few hours there, and that was that.

The most recent time I went, I went with a friend who collects (and whose parents collect) art glass, and we made a weekend of it. We probably spent 10-12 hours in the museum across two days, and took a glass fusing class besides. The museum was fully open, and the new wing was on. Having someone knowledgeable about glass made many things much more intriguing. It was a fascinating difference in experience.

I've liked my trips to the Museum of Glass, and even though I've been there at least twice (I think only twice!), I wouldn't mind going yet again.

[aldersprig]

I will definitely go again. The last time I went I was a kid, and my memories of the place were very vague. This time I had a much better feel for it.

I could've spent an hour in the historical glass section alone. Like, the one tiny room with cases on cases of stuff not out in the main display.