Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in Seattle, Washington
- Also known as: “SAM”, “Seattle Museum”, and “SMoA”
- Address: 1300 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Benaroya Hall and Pike Place Market.
Benaroya Hall
Theater building
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Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. It features two auditoria, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2,500-seat performance venue, as well as the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, which seats 536. Benaroya Hall is situated 410 feet east of Seattle Art Museum.
Pike Place Market
Photo: Wac, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Pike Place Market is situated 1,000 feet northwest of Seattle Art Museum.
The Showbox
Theater building
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The Showbox is a music venue in Seattle, Washington, United States. It has been owned by AEG Live since 2007. The Showbox is situated 370 feet northwest of Seattle Art Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Seattle and Seattle.
Downtown Seattle
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Packed between Elliott Bay and the hilly neighborhoods to the east, Downtown Seattle unsurprisingly contains the city's bustling financial and retail district.
Seattle
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Seattle, Washington sits at one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. Occupying a narrow isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is the biggest city in the Pacific Northwest, with 780,000 people in Seattle and over four million people in the metro area.
Belltown
Suburb
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Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project.
Seattle Art Museum
- Categories: art museum, art museum, nonprofit organization, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
47.6077° or 47° 36′ 28″ northLongitude
-122.33856° or 122° 20′ 19″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Open location code
84VVJM56+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1851741441OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
7602098Wikidata ID
Q1816301
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Seattle Art Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف الفن في سياتل”
- Armenian: “Սիեթլի արվեստի թանգարան”
- Catalan: “Museu d’Art de Seattle”
- Catalan: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Chinese: “西雅图艺术博物馆”
- Chinese: “西雅圖藝術博物館”
- Czech: “Seattleské umělecké muzeum”
- Dutch: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Esperanto: “Arta Muzeo de Seattle”
- French: “Seattle Art Museum”
- German: “SAM”
- German: “Seattle Art Museum”
- German: “SMoA”
- Greek: “Μουσείο Τέχνης του Σιάτλ”
- Igbo: “SAM”
- Igbo: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Igbo: “Seattle Museum”
- Igbo: “SMoA”
- Italian: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Japanese: “SAM”
- Japanese: “SMoA”
- Japanese: “シアトル美術館”
- Korean: “시애틀 미술관”
- Latvian: “Sietlas mākslas muzejs”
- Mazanderani: “سیاتل هنر موزه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Portuguese: “Museu de Arte de Seattle”
- Portuguese: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Romanian: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Russian: “Художественный музей Сиэтла”
- Slovenian: “SAM”
- Slovenian: “Seattelski muzej umetnosti”
- Slovenian: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Spanish: “SAM”
- Spanish: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Spanish: “SMoA”
- Turkish: “Seattle Art Museum”
- Ukrainian: “Сіетлівський мистецький музей”
- Ukrainian: “Художній музей Сієтла”
- Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Seattle”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West Edge and Central Business District.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as SAM Shop and 1st Ave & Union St.
King County: Must-Visit Destinations
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