Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
May 8, 2003, 8:56 pm
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May 9, 2003, 1:28 am
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The Tacoma Art Museum had a great glass exhibition. Despite not yet visiting this location, it is on our short list. After all, how often can one see items from the Pilchuk School and Chihuly?
May 9, 2003, 5:39 pm
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This is on my short list of things to do, Tacoma also just opened a brand new Art Museum which looks pretty good.
Even when I lived in the Seattle area previously, I've never actually been in Tacoma. Maybe its time to change that!
Even when I lived in the Seattle area previously, I've never actually been in Tacoma. Maybe its time to change that!
May 11, 2003, 5:54 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Sweet Willie:
[B]Anyone been, thoughts?[B]</font>
[B]Anyone been, thoughts?[B]</font>
I went back in November after reading this article:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visual...rfield23.shtml
May 12, 2003, 9:12 pm
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Will visit it this Friday... up there for a business trip and will have some time to kill. Will also have dinner at the new El Gaucho restaurant, a fantastic steak house that started in Seattle, opened in Portland (at the Benson Hotel) and now in Tacoma in a remodeled warehouse with bricks, bricks, bricks and a beautiful interior.
May 16, 2003, 10:52 pm
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A friend of mine - actually a fellow FT who I don't think looks at this board - visited when it first opened. He was pretty disappointed with the museum itself. Apparently, there wasn't much glass. Only the bridge, which you don't have to pay for, was impressive and had wonderful Chihuly and other glass pieces, he said. His advice was to save the money and just check out that walkway. The Corning Glass Museum, OTOH, is quite good.
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May 19, 2003, 12:16 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by letiole:
The Corning Glass Museum, OTOH, is quite good.</font>
The Corning Glass Museum, OTOH, is quite good.</font>
May 19, 2003, 12:37 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Is the Corning Museum in the SEA-TAC area? </font>
May 24, 2003, 8:08 pm
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Spent a lazy Saturday at both the Museum of Glass & the Tacoma Art Museum. The poster above is right that there's not much to the exhibit at Museum of Glass, there's only one gallery and most of it was roped off for a show opening on June 11th. What was there was very impressive though. A huge part of the museum is an auditorium where you can watch invited artists work. That was very good. I'd say its probably worth a visit if you are in the area but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it. Definitely wait until after June 11th though.
The Tacoma Art Museum was recently redone and has a huge Chihuly piece that is one of the most impressive things I've seen. It's pretty much a garden made of glass, a picture of it is here othewise the museum was pretty mediocre.
The Tacoma Art Museum was recently redone and has a huge Chihuly piece that is one of the most impressive things I've seen. It's pretty much a garden made of glass, a picture of it is here othewise the museum was pretty mediocre.
May 25, 2003, 11:29 am
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Maybe this should be a flyertalk weekend getaway ~~ spend a day in Tacoma. Its new, hip and happening.
We could go to the museum, see the Thea Foss waterway, ride the escalator, go to the java jive and enjoy its funkiness.
Oh, and if you wanna see some cool glass, make sure you go to milton, wv and see the blenko factory. I think they have cleaned it up a lot since our last visit in '95, but I used to love to watch the guys blow glass and then see all the cool things they used to make. They have a great seconds store too.
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We could go to the museum, see the Thea Foss waterway, ride the escalator, go to the java jive and enjoy its funkiness.
Oh, and if you wanna see some cool glass, make sure you go to milton, wv and see the blenko factory. I think they have cleaned it up a lot since our last visit in '95, but I used to love to watch the guys blow glass and then see all the cool things they used to make. They have a great seconds store too.
lala