Science meets art at Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Glass Flower exhibit

Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.
MassLive

Realism of Harvard’s ‘Glass Flowers,’ on display for 126 years, 'a lost art form’ that still dazzles (Photos)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Tucked inside a museum on the Harvard University campus is a gallery teeming with plants so lifelike in appearance you’d be forgiven for swearing they’re real. But this foliage ...
The Boston Globe

At Harvard, glass flowers that perfect the imperfection of decay

CAMBRIDGE — In her poem “Silence,” Marianne Moore quotes her father: “Superior people never make long visits,/have to be shown Longfellow’s grave/or the glass flowers at Harvard.” The glass flowers — ...
The Boston Globe

Harvard’s glass flowers return

CAMBRIDGE — In a way, the reinstalled Ware Collection of the Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is still just a room full of plants. Mounted in cases next to ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Glass Flowers’ and ‘Fragile Legacy’ Reviews: Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka Capture Nature in Art

Cambridge, Mass., and Corning, N.Y. If you somehow manage to avoid reading explanatory text as you enter the restored gallery on the second floor of Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History, ...
The New York Times

Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF

With works ranging from faux slime to hyper-realistic glass flowers, three artists examine our relationship to nature — and share hope along the way. By Keridwen Cornelius For years, TEFAF Maastricht ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Realism of Harvard’s Glass Flowers still dazzles

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Tucked inside a museum on the Harvard University campus is a gallery teeming with plants so lifelike in appearance you’d be forgiven for swearing they’re real. But ...