Online Videos Allow Glass Museum to Extend Its Reach

Photograph by Russell Johnson

By Noelle Barton

The Museum of Glass is located in Tacoma, Wash., but online visitors anywhere can watch streaming live video of its glass-blowing operations—held in one of the world’s largest glassblowing hot shops.

The museum made the video available two years ago after it tested the idea by showing an artist working on a commissioned sculpture for the museum’s reflecting pool and let its supporters