Marvin Bolt, the Museum’s curator of science and technology, traveled to Europe last fall to research some of the world’s oldest telescopes. Read along to hear about his adventures and discoveries. A last-minute change in a museum calendar opened up … Read more →
What do a curator, filmmaker, the oceans and Ireland all have in common? The answer is the Cornell University collection of Blaschka glass models of marine invertebrates! Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1939) were glass model makers based in Dresden, Germany, during the late 19th/early … Read more →