By Air
Morgantown Municipal Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is located 75 miles north of Morgantown.

By Car
Morgantown is located directly off of I-68 and I-79.
 

West Virginia University, Comer Museum, Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum, Morgantown Glass Museum, Riverfront Museums

West Virginia University, A major research university offering 171 majors. With the FBI, WVU developed the world's first bachelor's degree in forensic identification. Students are full of "Mountaineer pride" and are often to be found drunkenly cheering at football and basketball games.

Comer Museum, Patterson Drive and Baldwin Street, Open by appointment. Dedicated to preserving the social, cultural, and technological history of the coal, oil and natural gas industries. The museum houses miners' lamps, bird cages, fossils, gas testing equipment, blasting tins and caps, works of art, working models of oil derricks and coal mining equipment, and archival materials.

Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum, Built to resemble a 19th-century drugstore, the museum includes texts, medicines, furnishings, apothecary jars, mills, bottles, scales and other devices used by pharmacists over the past 100 years. Free.

Morgantown Glass Museum, 2PM-5PM W-F, 12PM-5PM Sa. Displays thousands of glass pieces from the late 19th century to around 1980, made in factories that once existed around Morgantown. Free. NOTE: As of 12/15/2007, this phone number has been disconnected. The alternate phone number given on the museum's Web site goes to a private individual's cell phone who is not affiliated with the museum.

Riverfront Museums, Inc., 709 Beechurst Avenue, Established as a way to preserve the history of Monongalia County, the Riverfront Museums currently have one display room devoted to the glass and crystal heritage of the area; more galleries are planned as resources permit. A glassworking studio is under construction. The RMI museum in Seneca Center. this phone number does not appear to be functional.

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