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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Glass museums in the United States, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ely Cathedral, Cast Courts, National Bottle Museum, Blenko Glass Company, Corning Museum of Glass, Britain Can Make It, National Glass Centre, Toledo Museum of Art, Oglebay Institute, Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Exhibition Road, Exhibition of National Portraits, Broadfield House Glass Museum, V&A Museum of Childhood, Optical Museum Jena, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Red House Cone, Louisville Glassworks, Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, Gilbert Collection, V&A Village Fete, WheatonArts, Haworth Art Gallery, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Huntington Museum of Art, Cisternerne, Turner Museum of Glass, Kingdom of Crystal, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Cromwell Gardens, Thurloe Square, National Art Glass Gallery, Natalie Rothstein. Excerpt: In 2000, an 11 metre high, blown glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly was installed as a focal point in the rotunda at the V&A's main entrance.The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to now cover 12.5 acres (51,000 m) and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and phot...
