I was up in Seattle about a month ago, and while we were there, we visited the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum. It’s just below the Seattle Space Needle. I enjoyed it, and if you are in the area and you want to experience something new, this is a place you might consider visiting. I had seen exotic blown glass in Venice (Italy, not California) a few years ago and I guess I was expecting to see more of the same, but trust me on this, the Chihuly Museum is unique. It features the blown glass artistry of Daly Chihuly, and it’s unlike anything I’d ever seen. The shapes, the colors, the size of the sculptures…all of it was amazing. Take a peek…
The Chihuly blown glass sculptures are huge, and it you look carefully at the photos, you can see people in the background and that will give you a sense of scale. The Nikon’s low light level capabilities came through for me here; these photos accurately portray what we saw in the Museum’s darkened interior.
There sure are a lot of interesting things to see here in the US, and I’m constantly amazed at how many of them I had never heard of before. The Chihuly Museum was in that category. There are other exciting destinations out there, and when Gresh and I find them, you’ll read about it here. Gresh is headed out to the Yamaha Endurofest in a couple of weeks (watch for that), and I’m headed overseas again. More good stuff coming up, folks!
Chihuly has a facility here in St Petersburg with a lot of his stuff in it and they do make some glass down here. Also if you go to Las Vegas if you look at the lobby of the Bellagio you will notice if you look up the whole ceiling is Chihuly glass. It’s funny years ago I sold glass, actually what we called neon tubing, to some guy New York named truly I had no idea. Great trip thanks for taking us all along!
I had no idea. I never heard of the man until we were looking at what there was to see in Seattle. Thanks, Terry!
Joe, about 3 weeks ago Sara and I visited the Corning Glass Museum in Corning NY. Wow! If you go, allow at least 4 hours since they cover about 1500 years of glass technology. The exhibits are everything from art to automobile glass to the space shuttle windows. Oh, and fiber optic cable thrown in to boot. More info here:https://www.cmog.org/
Peter Youngblood
Very cool, Peter. Thanks for alerting us to it. I get to upstate NY on occasion and the Corning Glass Museum is now on the list of places I want to visit.