See and touch colorful, beautifully crafted works of glass in these special hands-on sessions complementing the exhibition Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. The exhibition features over 200 works spanning 3,000 years of glass artistry, from Mesopotamian glass dating to 2500 B.C. through Roman vessels of the 400s A.D.

After viewing the exhibition, come to the adjacent Reading Room to talk to an educator and handle replicas of ancient glass objects, including a playful glass flask molded in the shape of a fish, an ingenious and elegant pitcher-within-a-pitcher, and a mosaic glass bowl created by merging lengths of multicolored glass cane.

See how contemporary glassmakers creatively employ the ancient techniques used to create the works in the exhibition—including free-blowing, core-forming, inflation, and mold-blowing—and explore up close the remarkable variety of shapes, colors, patterns, and textures found in art glass.

While in the Reading Room, you are also invited to browse books on glassmaking and other aspects of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art.