About the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd. (WVMAG)

Your donation of $100.00 will support the mission of the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd.,  a non-profit museum that strives to share the diverse and rich heritage of glass as a product and historical object as well as telling of the lives of glass workers, their families and communities, and of the tools and machines they used in glass houses.

After thirteen years of existence, your support is especially critical as we transition from our current location, where we have been been for the past nine years and which has become so crowded with cabinets that is is almost necessary to turn sideways to walk through it. With only 1,500 square feet on three floors, we have been unable to display more than a tiny part of our growing collection. Our new location, which is still in Weston, West Virginia, is almost 13,000 square feet, with at least 7,500 devoted to display and plenty of room for archives, meeting rooms, and other needed facilities. Your donation will assist us in reaching our goal of $250,000 for the purchase and renovation of this building. We need to attain this goal quickly, so that we can cut down on the interest we will be paying and devote ourselves fully to displaying glassware and providing service to the collecting community.

The West  Virginia Museum of American Glass is a 501(c)3 IRS recognized not for profit organization and your donation is tax deductible.

More about WVMAG

The Museum includes representative samples of all glass products...from bottles to lightening rod balls,  from telegraph insulators to glass used in automobiles, from pressed to blown tableware.  We preserve the history of the places and people who made these products. 

Our Museum examines the rich history of some of America's most famous glass factories,  while at the same time carefully understanding the impact that the hundreds of smaller and often time forgotten glass houses made on the history of the glass industry.

The WVMAG displays many of the diverse and beautiful objects produced by factories during the past century.  The museum attempts to compare and contrast similar pieces produced by once competing companies.  No other public collection offers such contrasts on a large scale.