Museum Hours
Wednesday – Sunday | 10am–5pm
Please note that Museum of Glass is closed on Wednesday, December 25. See the links below to learn more about holiday progrmming.
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Fireside: A Holiday Night at Museum of Glass
December 21 • 5–9pm
Join Museum of Glass for a festive holiday evening as we welcome the Tacoma Yacht Club’s annual Lighted Boat Parade to the Thea Foss Waterway! Enjoy the parade from the Museum’s Grand Plaza, where we’ll have an outdoor fireside station set up to keep everyone toasty while they enjoy the lights. Inside the Museum, explore newly opened exhibitions Field Notes: Artists Observe Nature and Nancy Callan: Forces at Play through docent-led tours, watch live glassblowing in the Hot Shop and flameworking demos in the Grand Hall, create your own works of art in glass in one of our Glass Tile Workshops or By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience sessions, and more.
Holiday Hours
December 25 – January 1
Please note the following holiday hours for Museum of Glass:
Dec. 25: Closed
Dec. 26–31: Open 10am–5pm
Jan. 1: Closed
Support Our 2024 Annual Fund
Museum of Glass will be busy in the coming year as we act on our ambitious goal to improve our facility, most notably with the addition of a permanent Lino Tagliapietra Legacy Gallery featuring statement pieces from the maestro’s personal archive. In addition to this major project, the Museum continues to support artists, expand educational initiatives, and provide a dynamic experience for all visitors.
Your investment in the Museum enriches all facets of our core programming as well as our larger community. Your gifts position us for success in our major building endeavor. Put simply, you are making an extraordinary impact.
Give the Gift of Membership
This year, give an extraordinary gift that continues all year long. Give the gift of Museum of Glass membership and give a year’s worth of exclusive member access to a one-of-a-kind experience including exceptional exhibitions, live glassblowing demonstrations, educational programming and unique member benefits. With so many different levels to choose from, there’s something for everyone on your list!
Holiday Music Week
December 26-31
Spend some of your holiday week at Museum of Glass, where we will host performances in the Grand Hall every day at 1pm. Additionally, the Museum is offering By the Furnace: Hot Shop Experience workshops throughout the week, as well as educational activities in conjunction to the new installation Wild Within: A Lens on Wolves.
Goblet Week
January 15–19 • Artist Reception + Wine Tasting and Goblet Sale on January 18
In the Pacific Northwest, artists and makers have been steeped in the Italian approach to glassmaking through the Studio Glass movement, and Venetian-style goblets are a fixture in our local glassmaking scene. As our culture becomes increasingly dependent on technology, it also becomes detached from the handmade. Goblet Week began with the mission to highlight the magic of handmade functional glass pieces — specifically, Venetian-style goblets.
Goblet Week will feature four Visiting Artists who are some of the best in the game in this style: Jason Christian, Jen Elek, Jason McDonald, and Michael Schunke. Learn more here.
Additionally, Museum of Glass will host an Artist Reception + Wine Tasting and Goblet Sale the evening of Saturday, January 18.
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 — June 15, 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 2025
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.