Day 26. June 12, 2025
Tacoma, WA
We were in search of a change of pace. Maybe something more refined. Something that didn’t involve getting dirty.
We were close to Tacoma and searching for a museum to visit, of all things. We found the Museum of Glass. Wow! What a cool place. Dale Chihuly is from Tacoma so he was well represented. The galleries were also full of the works of many more talented artists.
Interestingly, the Museum of Glass has a “Hot Shop” on site. You enter the space beneath a huge dome and take a seat in the amphitheater. Artists are working with glass on the floor below, creating pieces that will be sold in the museum shop. Famous glass sculptors, including Chihuly himself, use the shop to demo their techniques and create art that is then donated to the museum. Fascinating to watch art being created. It’s narrated by a museum expert so we could know what they were doing.
Today we enjoyed some manmade beauty at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma!
Miscellany from the trip:
Jane
(Written at Donna’s Bar and Family Dining in Toledo, WA. Finished at The Oasis Bar and Restaurant in Castle Rock, WA)
The Voyage of the Tramper 