Toyama’s glass industry stems from the medicine container manufacturing which started in the early Meiji Period. Before the WW2, there were as many as 10 glass factories with melting furnaces around Toyama Station. The museum was established by Toyama city in 2015 and is regarded as the culmination of Toyama’s “Glass Town Development” scheme. The exterior walls are made of three different materials – glass, aluminum, and granite – and express the changing appearance of the Tateyama mountain range with the seasons.