The National Imperial Glass Museum preserves the story of Imperial Glass, one of the companies that made the Ohio Valley a centre of American pressed and art glass. Cases of tableware, decorative pieces, patterns, and company history make it a focused stop for design and industrial-history travellers.
It is specialist rather than flashy, but that is its value. In a region shaped by river industry and craft manufacturing, the museum gives a tangible look at the objects that carried Wheeling's glass reputation into homes across the country.