Museum Hours
Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm. Live glassblowing demonstrations all day.
The Latest at Museum of Glass
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Family Day: Layered Lines
October 11 • 1–4pm
Explore Walter Lieberman: Are you the guy who does the chalk drawings in the Hot Shop? and discover non-traditional ways to draw and use materials. Afterwards, join MOG education staff and create a multi-layered drawing using various drawing media, velum, and lamination! Joyas Mestizas will perform in the Grand Hall to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Concert in the Cone
October 16 • 6pm • Free!
Seattle-based cellist Gretchen Yanover joins Museum of Glass for a Concert in the Cone collaboration with Hilltop Artists! Yanover will perform layered, evocative compositions on electric cello with a looping pedal. Her loops build into string atmospheres upon which she overlays soulful melodies. Yanover will perform from her body of repertoire, including works from her 2024 release, Holding / Movement. The album title embodies the feeling of the music Gretchen creates.
Refract: The Seattle Glass Experience
October 17–19
Åsa Sandlund will be working in the Hot Shop all weekend! Refract will also be hosting a Sunday morning shuttle from Seattle to Museum of Glass, featuring an artist talk from prolific Tlingit artist Preston Singletary. The shuttle leaves the Space Needle Valet Circle at 9am, and Museum Curator Katie Buckingham will begin free guided tours of the galleries at 11:15am. All Museum visitors are welcome to join the tours to get a closer look at Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature and Out of the Vault: Art History 101.
Hands-On Workshops
The Education Studio at Museum of Glass invites visitors to create their own art with a variety of hands-on workshops inspired by the Museum’s current exhibitions, the season, events, and more. Crafts and activities range from glassmaking and fusing to sketching and painting.
Full fusing, tack fusing, and slumping workshops are great opportunities to learn more about the technical qualities of glass and to have fun stretching your imagination to create your own one-of-a-kind piece of glass art!
Workshops are available every month. Check the Calendar of Events and reserve your spot today!
Museum of Glass Stories
Artist interviews, program spotlights, and more.
In the Galleries
Learn more about the exhibitions currently on view.
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.
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.
Kids Design Glass: The First Generation
October 4, 2025 - Ongoing
Can children be designers of fine art, too? In the 22 years since the beginning of the Kids Design Glass program, we have determined that the answer to that question is unequivocally yes. Kids Design Glass: The First Generation features 50 of the first Kids Design Glass sculptures. These pieces have been delighting visitors to the Museum since the program’s inception. Beyond its unique appearance, a Kids Design Glass piece embraces the symbiotic relationship between designer and glassblower in a new way. Without a technical understanding of the constraints of glass as a medium, these children challenge the Hot Shop Team to explore new kinds of precision – that which requires the abandonment of glassblowing norms.
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.