National Bottle Museum
POW! collaborated with DCM Fabrication and Kim Wagner Nolan to create a dynamic new exhibition for the National Bottle Museum. The “Glass Factory Mountain” exhibition shares stories about the people, processes, and products of the historic Glassworks supplying bottles to ship the famous Saratoga Springs waters.
Title & Credit Panel
Layered acrylic panels provide a striking introduction to the “Glass Factory Mountain” exhibition
Glassworks Maps
Modern and historic maps help visitors understand how the locations of the Glassworks depended on access to the vast quantities of wood – to fire furnaces and sand – to make glass.
Exhibition Video
Glass Factory Mountain Exhibition Video.
People Section Panels
Utilizing 19th-century photographs of glassblowers, Kim Wagner Nolan created large format graphics to punctuate the compelling stories found inside the National Bottle Museum.
Oscar Granger
Oscar Granger, one of the key figures of the Glassworks era, is represented by a life-sized graphic based on a historical painting of Granger.
Bottles Display Case
Drawing upon the Museum’s extensive collections, DCM Fabrication built this custom display case with backlighting for each bottle.
Congressville Section Panel
This display panel picks up architectural details shown in the photographs of the pavilion at Congress Spring, where the public would come to sample the waters.
Glass Furnace Model Front
The front of this “Glass Furnace” display features samples of the components needed to make glass and a touchable piece of glass from one of the 19th-century Glassworks.
Glass Furnace Model Back
The back of the “Glass Furnace” display is a scale model of the type of large furnaces that were used to contain the molten glass that glassblowers formed into bottles.