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The Seattle Art Museum, known as SAM, is located on First Avenue in Seattle. The museum consists of three facilities: the main museum in downtown Seattle, the Seattle Asian Art Museum on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the waterfront.
The collection began in 1933 with just under 2,000 pieces.
Today, it contains about 25,000 works of art. The museum is known mostly for its collections of ethnic art and modern art, but it also has some traditional European pieces. The museum also hosts traveling exhibitions to round out its collection. Leonardo Lives was an exhibition that displayed da Vinci’s Codex Leicester. There are also two libraries in the museum.
Address: 1300 1st Avenue, Seattle, Washington, Phone: 206-654-3100
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