上海玻璃博物館由上海輕工玻璃有限公司發起并資助建立，這個見證了上海玻璃工業發展的企業，用心保存和承載了百年歷史和玻璃文化。

在**數十間博物館的考察經驗后，分享玻璃的無限可能這個非凡的建館理念油然而出。博物館組建團隊特邀德國迪爾曼圖蒙建筑設計團隊擔任主筆改造，結合新的建筑結構和原有結構，保留并突出舊廠房的原有特色，賦予其新的功能性和標志性，創造出的一系列新與舊的交替。
上海玻璃博物館提倡在分享中創造更精彩紛呈的玻璃空間，更以國外社區化博物館為未來發展方向。從建筑玻璃到國內外的玻璃藝術品，博物館將美的藝術和精彩的科技呈現于公眾面前。

Shanghai Museum of Glass was initiated and funded by Shanghai Glass Co.,Ltd.,which had witnessed the development of the glass industry in Shanghai and attentively preserved and inherited a century-old history and its product culture.
An investigation group was organized to visit and inspect dozens of famous museums in the world and an architectural design team headed by Tilman Thuermer from Germany to undertake the main renovation for the interior space of Shanghai Museum of Glass. The design of the Museum integrates both new and existing structures, which keeps and highlights the features of the old workshop, and also gives the architecture new functionality and iconic status, created a series of changing of new and old. Shanghai Museum of Glass covers a building area of about 5,000 m2.
Shanghai Museum of glass advocated creating a more colorful and wonderful glass art space, in addition, guided by the direction towards community-style development. From the architectural glass to the top of the glass works of art, sharing so as to present the most beautiful and most wonderful technologies to the public.