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Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm. Live glassblowing demonstrations all day.
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Give to the 2025 Spring Appeal
At Museum of Glass, we believe that within each of us lies a deep desire to create something meaningful. Our goal is to ignite the imaginations of our visitors, leaving them inspired long after their time in the Museum.
This spring, we aim to double our Annual Fund goal of $30,000 to raise $60,000 toward our mission at Museum of Glass: to ignite creativity, fuel discovery, and enrich lives through glass and glassmaking. With recent cuts to federal funding for the arts paired with rising operational expenses, Museum of Glass is counting on supporters like you, who value the importance of programs like our Visiting Artist residencies.
Hot Shop Seconds Sale
June 21 | 10am until inventory sells out
Join us for a sale of Hot Shop seconds! With prices as low as $10, this is your chance to snag one-of-a-kind pieces made by the Hot Shop Team at steeply discounted prices. This event sold out quickly last year, so please plan on arriving promptly.
Glass is a difficult medium to master. Because of this, sometimes the final pieces aren’t quite as perfect as the artists intend (even if those imperfections are so slight that they are only visible to the artists themselves). These pieces are called “seconds.” This year, we will also be selling exhibition catalogs at a discount, too.
Any visitors who purchase a glass item at the Hot Shop Seconds Sale will receive $5 off Museum admission for the day.
Breakfast at the Cone
June 6 | 7:30–9am
Museum of Glass is pleased to announce the return of Breakfast at the Cone: The Art of Business! This annual fundraising event promotes civic engagement among cultural organizations and business leaders who support the future of Tacoma.
Museum of Glass Stories
Artist interviews, program spotlights, and more.
In the Galleries
Learn more about the exhibitions currently on view.
Nancy Callan: Forces at Play
October 9, 2024 – September 1, 2025
Seeing glass through the eyes of Nancy Callan is a delight, and experiencing the material through her work is a master class in the artistic process. Her elegant, playful designs are inspired by a seemingly limitless visual vocabulary and executed with extraordinary technical expertise. Nancy Callan: Forces at Play, Callan’s first museum survey, will invite visitors to experience the multitude of ways Callan has used hot glass as a canvas for her perspectives on the world around her.
Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature
November 16, 2024 – December, 2025
Not surprisingly, artists have looked to the natural world for inspiration for millennia. And, since the turn of the 20th century, there have been significant moments in which artists have sought to mimic the forms and patterns of nature in glass. Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature begins with works from the Art Nouveau period, roughly between 1890 and 1910, centered in France during the Belle Époque. More than a century later, contemporary glass artists have been similarly inspired by the natural world as a focus in their work. These innately curious artists have trained their prodigious skills in glass to honor the natural world; their work reminds the viewer of the marvelous phenomena outside of the studio walls.
Spotlight on Chihuly
March 30, 2024 – January 2026
Dale Chihuly’s boundless artistic vision has elevated the Pacific Northwest to an internationally acclaimed center for glassmaking. A native of Tacoma, Chihuly was one of the first Studio Glass artists to travel to the island of Murano, Italy to observe the secretive processes of Venetian glass factories. He was struck, not only by their technical prowess, but the importance of working as a team. These two ideas: experimentation to push the limits of glass, and the importance of collaboration, have had a lasting impact on Chihuly’s career and, subsequently, the culture of glassblowing in the Pacific Northwest.
Enhance Your Experience
Take a guided tour, participate in workshops, and visit the Museum Hot Shop.
Make Your Own Art
Learn how to create your own glass art in a variety of hands-on workshops inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions, the season, events, and more.
Details on available workshops is available here.
Take a Tour
Add a docent-led tour to your next visit to MOG and get an personal and interactive experience in the galleries. Want to really stretch your legs? Consider an outdoor walking tour and learn about the art and architecture on the Thea Foss Waterway.
See Who’s in the Hot Shop
The Museum’s Visiting Artist Residency Program hosts artists in our world-class Hot Shop to create new works in glass with our Hot Shop Team. These artists create a sense of excitement and wonder as they experiment and explore new directions in their art that may not be possible in their own studios.