"Exploring the Glass City: The Teacher's Guide to the Glass Pavilion", published in 2008 to celebrate the opening of the Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion, exemplifies the museum's multidisciplinary approach to public art museum education. This research narrative about the teacher's guide unfolds in three levels. The first, auto-ethnography, relates aspects of personal history with the Toledo Museum of Art. The second level links four generations of family history to the social history of Toledo, Ohio. Curricular questions in the guide are used to rethink family history in relation to social movements, labor struggles, economic trends, and environmental change. The third level discusses ways of teaching art that allow students to make connections between self, family, place, and society through the study and creation of art. At every level, the narrative grapples with questions of how to bring the personal and political together in an embodied teaching practice. This task is complicated by an understanding of identity as produced through active networks of time, place, and matter.