Museum of Glass

The bridge is something to experience. I did like the hot room where you could learn to blow glass. The kids space with art was also very cool. The focus in on hands on art. How to make glass for all ages. It’s a nice museum to have in Tacoma. There is a wide range of artists represented. Well worth going.

Beautiful works of art in glass! It's truly amazing to see what can be created in glass. What makes this museum even more fun is that they have live glass blowing workshops that you can watch. The gift shop was super cute also and Darren, the cashier who helped us, asked us if we would be traveling with the glass pieces we bought. When we said we would, he made sure to triple wrap everything so that it was all secure and protected. He even wrote the names of stuff on the bubble wrap so we would know what was what! So nice of him and we appreciated it so much!

A nice friendly museum with working demonstration of glass blowing. I think a bit pricey for three adults, but we are glad too support the arts. Some of the pieces were absolutely amazing. I didn't know anything about glass bowling before this visit.

Nice museum with beautiful glass art. The museum entry fee ($22) is steep for the small amount of art on exhibit. A $10 entry fee would be closer to a reasonable price. Parking is not free either. With that said, the glass objects on display are stunning. The kid-designed objects created in the on-site workshop are amazing and amusing. The giant chandelier - something from a Dr. Seuss book - is the craziest glass creation you will ever see.

The Museum of Glass in Tacoma offers a mixed experience. At $22 for admission, the price feels steep given the museum’s limited size, which can be fully explored in under an hour. During my weekend visit, the atmosphere was surprisingly empty, detracting from the overall experience. While the environment is pleasant and the store is beautifully decorated, prices for items there are also quite high. Overall, I found the museum lacking in excitement and would not recommend it unless you’re particularly interested in glass art.

Visited the museum after watching blown away on Netflix and absolutely loved being able to see them working in the hot-shop. Beautiful art all around. Loved the experience!

Great place for a quick indoor walk. Not the biggest museums but quality of the work showcased makes up for it. Check schedule for live viewing of glass blowers, highly recommended. Shop has lots of glass art to buy at all price points. Outdoor area is great, and free, make sure to walk through the bridge.

Genuinely one of the best museums in the entire Pacific northwest, a wild and exuberant wonderland of art and design. There is some exhilarating florid and ornate Chihuly glass displayed here, including a kaleidoscopic chandelier, as well as a lot of art inspired by the plants of the sea floor, all bizarre and fantastical and spiraling. There is also more contemporary glass art displayed, and even as someone who is a bit ambivalent about modern art, I found it thoroughly enchanting, a whirlpool of individual creativity. There is the same kind of anti utilitarian exuberance and swirling elaborateness and complex play of colors that I love in Art Nouveau, and there is also some actual Art Nouveau glass displayed by masters like Galle. This is a museum that deeply cares about history and process: spend time exploring here, and you will learn about how glass is made and the history of it being made and the artistic principles behind its making. In that spirit, there is an enormous conical room called the Hot Shop that smells distinctly of burning glass and opens to the sky at its apex. There the artisans work thoughtfully and elegantly on creating new works of art, and one can watch them. This is a museum that is both extremely artful and refreshingly unpretentious: there is a real care and love and concern for art itself that is sadly not common enough in museums these days.