Add the Corning Glass Museum among numerous others.
Ross Weeks Jr.

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> Susan Wageman wrote:
> >
> > lara anne taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there such a thing as a for-profit museum?
> >
> > Yes. A number of for profit entities support museums related to
> > their operations. Ones I know of are the Motorola Museum, the
> > Intel Museum, and Cranberry World.
> >
>
> There is also a sense in which tours of factories and workshops are
> making them simultaneously museums, often with marketing in mind.  The
> woodcarving workshops of Firenze and the glass workshops of Murano are
> two examples that spring to mind.  Confectionary shops and bakeries that
> provide a view to the active kitchens are more common, and small-scale,
> examples - and the man tossing circles of dough in the pizzeria window.
>
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