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...word “glass” often evokes images of beautiful, vibrantly colored pieces of art, but “Sea Creatures and Glass: Marine Invertebrate Models of Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka,” up at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) through next January, offers a different type of appeal. The glass sea creatures, like their live counterparts, range from pastel-colored to dull shades of brown, remaining true to the features of the species they depict.The collection of over 400 creatures, from sea anemones to sea cucumbers, has belonged to the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...glass flowers exhibit--formally called the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants--is one of the University's most popular art collections and has been on continuous display in its entirety since...
Goddell hit upon a solution when he viewed glass reproductions of marine invertebrates in the zoological museum. He decided to commission the European father-and-son team who had created the models, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, to make similar glass plants for the museum...
Harvard's most popular tourist attraction is not one of the hallmarks of University history--the John Harvard statue or Widener Library--but rather the breathtaking collection of Blaschka Glass models of plants, popularly called the "Glass Flowers...
Schultes said that a myth had been perpetuated that called the flower-making process secret and known only to Blaschka. He dismissed this, saying that the process was well known to Blaschka's contemporaries...