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The museum s displays include a current exhibit of painted soda and Coca-Cola bottles intended to attract younger collectors. From a bottle in a buried ship to a bizarre “baby bottle” to an ingenious early anti-theft method, every bottle at the museum has a story to tell. Here are staff favorites.
Found along the main street that runs through the small New York town of Ballston Spa is the National Bottle Museum (NBM), which I visited during a late fall 2014 trip to a Beechnut plant in the area.
Established in 1978 and housed at a 1901 storefront since 1993, the two-story museum displays notable examples of US glassmaking, which the NBM notes as “our nation’s first major industry.”