The museum will be housed in the Grade II listed former Stuart Crystal Glassworks, which has been creatively and imaginatively adapted for the purpose.  Combining both permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a hot glass-making studio, and a hands-on activities space for children and their families, this innovative new museum will serve regional, national, and international audiences.

For over 400 years, state-of-the-art glass in every fashionable style has been made in the Stourbridge area, and Stourbridge glass is collected and admired worldwide.

The Stourbridge Glass Collection housed at the museum is one of the finest worldwide holdings of British and international 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th-century glass.