{"id":783530,"date":"2014-08-18T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/?p=783530"},"modified":"2014-07-24T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:21:56","slug":"museum-of-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/museum-of-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are ever in Tacoma, Washington, I have two tourists stops to recommend: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdza.org\" target=\"_blank\">Point Defiance Zoo<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/museumofglass.org\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Glass<\/a>. This post is not about the zoo though, it&#8217;s about the Museum of Glass. (Hence the title.)<\/p>\n<p>The museum of glass is one of the neatest places to visit. Some of the art pieces are almost like eye candy, they are just so colorful and pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Glass Exhibits outside of the Museum by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14735183215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Glass Exhibits outside of the Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2913\/14735183215_10f1d4d009_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a bridge next the museum that goes over the highway, and has all sorts of interesting pieces of art. The above picture shows a pair of art pieces. The two pictures below show the ceiling that looks like it is full of colorful jelly fish made of glass.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ceiling in Glass Bridge by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14731998531\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Ceiling in Glass Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3924\/14731998531_93b7818c16_n.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ceiling in Glass Bridge by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14712182096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Ceiling in Glass Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5563\/14712182096_92e098c334_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the bridge is a wall a glass vases of so many sizes, colors and designs, that it is just stunning.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Glass Bridge by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14755041063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Glass Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5574\/14755041063_26721729e2_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You also get to watch glass blowing. They actually have a glass blowing institute in the museum, so there are very good artists in there teaching students their different techniques. It&#8217;s very interesting (and warm).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watching Glass Blowing by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/14732813924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Watching Glass Blowing\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3873\/14732813924_40fb1cc617_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite exhibit at the museum (a traveling exhibit, unfortunately) was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulstankard.com\/works.php\" target=\"_blank\">Paul J. Stankard exhibit<\/a>. (Click on the link to see some of his pieces.) They are so much prettier in real life though. The next time it&#8217;s back at the museum, I will definitely go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are ever in Tacoma, Washington, I have two tourists stops to recommend: the Point Defiance Zoo and the Museum of Glass. This post is not about the zoo though, it&#8217;s about the Museum of Glass. (Hence the title.) The museum of glass is one of the neatest places to visit. Some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783534,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783530\/revisions\/783534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}