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The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park is a designated city landmark. From 1933 to 1981, the building housed the main Seattle Art Museum (SAM). The "Art Ladder": the main staircase of the 1991 Robert Venturi-designed wing of SAM. The Naval Reserve Armory, now home to MOHAI.
The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States.The museum operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, Capitol Hill; and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in 2007.
The Seattle Art Museum was founded in 1933 by Richard E. Fuller, a collector of Asian art. Sixty years later, in 1993, the main Seattle Art Museum announced that it would open an Asian art museum at its original Volunteer Park location.
It is nonetheless home to four major art museums and galleries: the Frye Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Several Seattle museums and cultural institutions that are not specifically art museums also have excellent art collections, most notably the Burke Museum of Natural History and ...
The Frye Art Museum is a modern and contemporary art museum in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.It was founded in 1952 to house the collection of Charles and Emma Frye and has since grown to include rotating temporary exhibitions of emerging and contemporary artists.
Consolidated Works - Seattle; Fairchild Heritage Museum & Air Park, closed in 2002 [33] [34] Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art, Bellevue, closed in 2012; Three Rivers Children's Museum, Richland [35] Washington State Railroads Historical Society Museum, Pasco [36] Western Bridge, Seattle [37]
Seattle Asian Art Museum; Seattle Children's Museum; Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame; Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum; United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-83) V.
The Henry Art Gallery ("The Henry") is a contemporary art museum located on the campus of the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, United States.Located on the west edge of the university's campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it was founded in February, 1927, and was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. [1]