The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants

“One of my favorite things to do in Boston is to visit the glass flowers at the Peabody Museum. From 1886 through 1936, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made 4,300 astonishingly lifelike glass models of 780 plant species, all housed in lovely old wooden vitrines.”

“This is an exquisite, wildly lifelike collection of over four thousand (!) glass flowers made over the span of 40 years by a Czech father/son duo starting in the 1880s. Pure magic. Had to rec these after reading Ben Lerner’s “Transcription”… one of the best hidden gems in Cambridge 🥲”

“if you’re a nature lover in Boston this will be so fun for you. handmade by a father and son glass modeling business in the 1800’s for Harvard’s botany department. It’s truly mind blowing!”

“A stunning collections of glass plant models crafted by a father and son team in the late 19th century. A true treasure!”

“this father-son duo made exact replicas of rare flowers out of glass for botany students to study when live samples and traveling to remote places was impossible. the glass flowers are from the 1800s/early 1900s and they are just so incredible!”