These photos are from the Toyama Glass Art Museum, which is in a lovely new-ish library and gallery building and (oddly) seems to have been created without Toyama having any particular historical connection to glass making. [Update: I have since read that it was known for making glass medicinal bottles - which ties in with the cities reputation for old style medicine manufacturing, about which I might one day post. But still, medicine bottles are not exactly art...]
Anyway, they were having an exhibition of French art nouveau glassware from around the start of the 20th century, and many pieces were very intricate and lovely.
The photos are the end are actually huge glass installations by an American glass artist. The photo of the boat full of glass balls lacks anything to scale it by, but it's probably about 7 or 8m long.
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