Things to do / Travel Guide
Address:1701 Pacific Ave.
Tacoma, Washington
Tel:
(253) 272-4258
Experience art in the Northwest, with magnificent views of the majestic Mt. Rainier! From Japanese woodblock prints to American graphic art, and housed in a user-friendly exhibition space, the Tacoma Art Museum promises a rejuvenating and exciting day to be remembered!
Located in the heart of Tacoma's Cultural District, the Tacoma Art Museum features flexible exhibition space in a series of galleries that wrap around an open-air stone courtyard. Visitors can explore an interior that reflects the museum's spirit, from the education spaces, designed to make art accessible, to the framed views of Mt. Rainier and Tacoma's growing core. With more than 3,000 pieces, two-thirds of which are classified as Northwest art, the permanent collection includes work from world-renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth.
The Tacoma Art Museum also has respectable collections of European Impressionism, Japanese woodblock prints, and American graphic art, and regularly brings in large traveling shows.
Stop in at the museum's Untitled Cafe, where the food is as enticing as the art. In the summer, enjoy your lunch on the café plaza under Tacoma Art Museum's one-of-a-kind umbrellas painted by Northwest artists Victoria Adams, Claire Cowie, Mike Shea, and Yuki Nakamura.
To get to the Tacoma Art Museum from downtown Seattle, take Pierce Transit's Seattle Express directly to Tacoma Art Museum.
From Tacoma Art Museum - Washington:
Inside, the walkway starts at the largest retrospective grouping of Dale Chihuly's glass on permanent display and moves you gradually upwards through five galleries. Upstairs, the Fuchs Foundation Education Wing offers hands-on art making, access to art resources and sweeping views of the city and Mt. Rainier.