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Ysart Glass in Perth Museum all locked up in the basement again.

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chopin-liszt:
I went in today to check some colours and found, to my disgust, that all the glass has been taken off display and locked up in the basement again.
 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

There are some old clothes there instead. >:(

They're going to be "refurbishing" and buliding a cafe. The glass might get to see the light of day again, in 1021.

If anybody wants to see any of the glass in the meantime, you will have to contact them to make an appointment with the museum and ask for the things you want to see to be brought out specially for you.

KevinH:
Wow! 1021? They are going back to the Middle Ages? I will have to borrow Doctor Who's Tardis next time I think about visiting.  ;D

chopin-liszt:
 ;D
Sorry, sausage fingers.
But a time machine is still required unless you make a specific appointment.
I wanted to check the different colours of Stuart Strathearn Dark Crystal.
There is an image of the catalogue photo on Scotland's Glass, but it's impossible to make the colours out.

Mindie:
It's the one annoying thing about museums - ours in Cardiff has the most amazing collection of various items - yet half never see the light - all going interactive - so boring !

H

oldglassman:
Hi ,
            UK museums should take a leaf out of their continental colleagues books, a couple of weeks ago I was on a Holland glass trip and knowing both the past and present curators of the glass collection in the Gemeente Museum in the Hague I called before hand to see if a visit to the vaults was possible , the current curator was busy with an exhibition but the past curator offered to come in for the day and let us have a look at anything we wanted to , hands on , everything from 12th century Islamic glass to Venetian and Facon de Venice and a whole herd of magnificent engraved and stippled glasses, many hours of drooling and chat.

cheers ,

Peter.

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