Turner Museum of Glass

Turner Museum of Glass

The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield's Mappin Street Campus in Sheffield, England. It is one of the United Kingdom's most interesting displays of glass, and is unrivaled in its collection of glass from the 1920s to 1950s.

It was founded in 1943 by Professor W.E.S. Turner [ [http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?
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] [ [http://www.turnermuseum.group.shef.ac.uk/biography.html Biography of Turner from the Museum website] ] of the University, who additionally was the senior author on many papers on glass technology [ [http://www.societyofglasstechnology.org.uk/cgi-bin/open.cgi?page=JSGT/JSGT-04 List of Papers on Glass Technology] ] .

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External links

* [http://www.turnermuseum.group.shef.ac.uk/ Turner Museum of Glass website]


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