Museum · Downtown
Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue, Seattle 98101
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Seattle Art Museum is the city's main art museum, in a downtown building on First Avenue steps from Pike Place Market. Its collections range from Northwest Coast Native art and African and Oceanic art to European painting and contemporary installations, alongside rotating special exhibitions. It is run together with the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Permanent exhibitions
- American art galleries ('American Art: The Stories We Carry')
- Art and life of the Northwest Coast peoples
- Global nineteenth-century Impressionism galleries
- Australian Aboriginal art from Yirrkala
- Mesoamerican and Andean art
- Porcelain Room
- Italian Room (period room)
- Japanese Tea House
