The Tiffany Glass Archive

Curator-led tours

Step back in time to 1893, when famed American artist Louis C. Tiffany opened his own glass furnaces in Queens, New York. There, Tiffany’s team of skilled chemists worked in secret to develop never-before-seen colors and styles of artistic glass. From sculptural “drapery” and “ripple” glass to “streaky” and “spotted” glass in every imaginable hue, the chemists' astonishing results forever changed the art of stained glass.

Today, The Neustadt's Tiffany Glass Archive is the world's only repository of its kind. Comprised of nearly half a million examples of this remarkable glass, it preserves the revolutionary contributions that Tiffany and his chemists made to this centuries-old art form.

Join us for a special, behind-the-scenes tour to explore this unique and beautiful collection, and to discover some of the secrets behind Tiffany’s groundbreaking innovations in glassmaking.

On these intimate, curator-led tours, guests will:

• Explore towering aisles of wooden cubbies that house nearly 500,000 pieces of original glass made and used by Tiffany.
• Discover the secrets behind Tiffany's groundbreaking innovations in glassmaking and learn about his revolutionary contributions to the history of stained glass and mosaics.
• Experience the glass through the eyes of Tiffany's artisans via a specially-curated display and breathtaking lighting demonstrations.