Museum Of Glass

Today we took our family over to the Museum of Glass. We arrived just as they were beginning to do some amazing work in the Hot Shop! The Hot Shop is the museums 90-foot steel cone house, where you can sit and watch artists use glass, watch videos, and listen to the process, art, and history of glass blowing. It’s very cool; I would go again just to sit and watch that. Isabel was very interested in the whole process and asked us lots of good questions! Unfortunately, they wouldn’t allow you to take photos in the museum. Enjoy!

Walking over to the museum from the Chihuly Bridge of Glass.

Jeannie and Aaron came along too, of course.

One of the pieces of art along the Bridge of Glass.

Before heading in…Grandma, Grandpa, and Isabel.

I did get to take photos in the kids area. Aaron and Isabel made masks together. Aaron and Jeannie are working on his…

While Isabel works on coloring hers.

Isabel’s completed mask. On the way home, she “braided” the hair.

Outside the museum once again, beside Martin Blank’s Fluent Steps. This interpretation of water spans 210 feet long and rises 15 feet above the reflecting pool. It contains 754 individually hand-sculpted pieces of glass, mostly created in the Hot Shop of the museum during the artists 45 -day visit in 2008. The whole collection glows at night from lights that point upward from the pool.

Trike riding and fun after a day at the museum.