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 🥲”