An evening at Tacoma- 1


The Museum of Glass

Visited on: 15th August 2013






We visited Tacoma on a Thursday evening and covered a lot of interesting places. The Glass museum is the first place we entered. We reached around 5pm. Parking fee was required till 6pm, so we had to pay for an hour only. The site for the museum is directly adjacent to the Thea Foss Waterway.  The outside courtyard has some beautiful pieces and you are right along the waterfront. The general admission fee for the museum is $12 but we visited it for free since it was the third Thursday of a month. It’s interesting to know that three important museums of Tacoma are free to visit on the third Thursday of any month. The Museum of Glass hosts internationally-acclaimed and emerging artists. It is an amazing museum with various glass arts- blown, painted and shaped. The exhibits are phenomenal. We took half an hour to see the exhibits and then proceeded towards the “Hot Shop”. The Hot Shop is a workshop where you can see artists and staff creating glass arts. It has a stadium seating and a huge video monitor where you can watch close-ups of their work. It’s quite interesting to see how they make such beautiful arts. After spending half an hour at the work shop we visited the gift shop. It has items of all price ranges and includes some pieces made at the Hot Shop.




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Chihuly Bridge of Glass connects from the roof of the Museum to the city and the pool outside. We walked up to bridge and saw many exhibits of Dale Chilhuly. They were wonderful. I have previously visited the “Chilhuly garden and glass” which is a glass museum in Seattle center and I have become a fan of this artist. At the end of the bridge there is the “Washington State History Museum”. It was the next spot that we visited.
To get more information about the museum visit:
http://museumofglass.org/visit
Exhibits at the Chilhuly bridge


Chilhuly bridge and glass museum
 
 

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