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Glassmaker from Herat, Afghanistan, visits Corning

The Museum recently hosted a very special guest, Ustad Nasrullah, a glassmaker from Herat, Afghanistan. He, along with The Galleria Kabul Founder Rameen Javid, visited the Museum as part of a U.S. tour, funded in part by a grant through the … Read more →

The Glassmakers of Herat

In 1968, Dr. Robert Brill, the Museum’s Research Scientist Emeritus, participated in a National Geographic Society expedition to document traditional pyrotechnologies in order to determine how the comparable ancient processes may have occurred. As the expedition was passing through Herat, … Read more →