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Quirky FunTacoma Glassblowing Studio
$50+Hands-on glassblowing studio in downtown Tacoma where visitors make their own glass piece with an artisan.
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Museum of Glass
Museum of Glass is a museum in Tacoma, WA, part of the Seattle guide. Cost: under $25.
1801 Dock St · Tacoma, WA
Why you should go…
The Museum of Glass is a 75,000-square-foot contemporary art museum in Tacoma, Washington, dedicated to the studio glass art movement. Its Hot Shop lets visitors watch resident and visiting artists blow glass live, and the building is capped by a 90-foot stainless steel cone visible across the Tacoma skyline. The museum opened in 2002 on a former Superfund site along the Thea Foss Waterway.
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