The Finnish Glass Museum
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The Museum Reference Library

The library of the Finnish Glass Museum is Finland's largest specialist library in its field. At present, summer 2005, it contains 7539 titles and 9000 volumes. The library and the museum's archives are intended for use by researchers and other interested bodies. The library is open during office hours, but users are requested to make an appointment.

Examples of keywords

Aalto, Corning, crucibles, Diatret glass, Egyptian glass, filigreed glass, glass in mythology, glassmaking machinery, grinding, history of windows, history of Bohemian glass, Norwegian glass art, oil heating in glassmaking, optical glass sculpture, Pilkington, Ratina glassworks, sheet-glass processing, soundproofing glass, stemmed glass techniques, Still, Venetian glassmaking, Waldglas (forest glass), Åvik glassworks.

The main categories of library material
 

05 Journals. Periodicals
069.7 Publications of the Finnish Glass Museum
069.748 Glass museums
069.8 Research conducted by the Finnish Glass Museum
621.32 Electric lamps
666.1 The glass industry. Glassmaking
666.1.022 Processing of raw material
666.1.031 Melting glass. Glass furnaces
666.1.032 Shaping glass, general features. Glassblowing
666.1.038 Annealing. Heating. Hardening
666.1.053 Working glass by machine and hand. Cutting. Drilling. Lathing. Grinding. Engraving. Frosting
666.1.058 Painting and other means of decoration
666.11 Glass objects, general. Glass
666.12 Raw materials, general
666.15 Sheet glass, general, window glass
666.16 Rolled plate glass. Window glass. Ornamental glass. Cast glass. Glass reinforced with metal threads
666.17 Hollow glass. Glass vessels. Bottles. Pipes etc.
666.185 Pressed glass
666.189.1 Spun glass. Glass wool
666.21 Crystal glass
666.22 Optical glass
666.27 Glass beads. Miniature glass objects. Glass jewellery
666.28 Engraved glass, ground and frosted glass. Processed glass, general.
748 Glass art
749.25 Lighting fixtures
902 Archaeology


 08.09.2009