The Seattle Art Museum is Seattle's premiere public art museum, showcasing more than 25,000 significant classic and modern artworks throughout three museum facilities in the city's downtown region. The museum operates its main downtown Seattle campus, along with Capitol Hill's Seattle Asian Art Museum and the open-air Olympic Sculpture Park on the city's Puget Sound waterfront.

Notable collections include works by Italian painters such as Camille Pissarro and Luca Giordano, along with 20th-century American works by Mark Tobey and Jacob Lawrence and a substantial collection of Aboriginal Australian works. Modern installation pieces including Stage One by Cai Guo-Qiang, Wake by Richard Serra, and Eagle by Alexander Calder. The museum is free to the public on the first Thursday of each month. Its main campus' permanent exhibits are also viewable on a pay-what-you-can basis.

1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, Phone: 206-654-3100, Map, Facebook

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