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• Contact Info

  Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

  1300 First Avenue
  Seattle, WA 98101

  Phone: 206.654.3100   |   Official Website

  Admission:

  $15 Adult
  $12 Senior (62+), Military (with ID)
  $9 Student (with ID), Teen (13–17)
  FREE for children (12 and under)
  FREE for SAM Members

  Hours: Wednesday–Sunday: 10 am–5 pm Thursday & Friday: 10 am–9 pm Monday & Tuesday: closed

• Map

  Full map and directions

• Parking Info

  Russell Investment Center Garage (formerly the Chase Center Garage). Entrance is below the SAM building on Union Street between First and Second Avenues.
  
  Monday–Friday: 6 am–10 pm
  Saturday: 9 am–midnight
  Sunday: 10 am–10 pm

  206.264.8444

• Accessibility Services

  There is no accessibility service information available at this time.

• • Current Events

    01/01/11- Ongoing	Burden of History Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Burden of History Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing Contemporary artists struggle with the weight of what has come before them and how to make new contributions to the field. Painting is one of the oldest of artistic traditions, and many artists; including Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth Murray and Rashid Johnson; whose paintings are brought together in Burden of History, create works that seem to physically reflect the negotiation with that tradition. Sculptors too; including Do Ho Suh, Katharina Fritsch and Jeff Koons; deal with the figure in ways...
    01/01/11- Ongoing	Light in the Darkness Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Light in the Darkness Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing  In 17th-century Europe, many artists drained their paintings of bright colors, creating drama instead through strong contrasts of light and dark. This installation of six paintings in the European art galleries makes it easy to see how narrowing the light source focuses our attention on a key gesture or action. In Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, attributed to the French artist Georges de La Tour and his studio, the holy woman gently removes an arrow from the young soldier, who...
    01/01/11- Ongoing	American Art in the 1930s and 1940s Seattle Art Museum (SAM) American Art in the 1930s and 1940s Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing This installation showcases some of the great works from the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection of paintings by Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Emilio Amero, and includes examples from the recent bequest of Marshall Hatch. It features early work by these artists, from the 1930s and 1940s, offering a glimpse of the creative forces that made the Seattle art scene so distinctive in these years. –Patricia Junker, The Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art Image:...

• • Upcoming Events

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Current &
Upcoming Events

• Current Events

  01/01/11- Ongoing	Burden of History Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Burden of History Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing Contemporary artists struggle with the weight of what has come before them and how to make new contributions to the field. Painting is one of the oldest of artistic traditions, and many artists; including Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth Murray and Rashid Johnson; whose paintings are brought together in Burden of History, create works that seem to physically reflect the negotiation with that tradition. Sculptors too; including Do Ho Suh, Katharina Fritsch and Jeff Koons; deal with the figure in ways...
  01/01/11- Ongoing	Light in the Darkness Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Light in the Darkness Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing  In 17th-century Europe, many artists drained their paintings of bright colors, creating drama instead through strong contrasts of light and dark. This installation of six paintings in the European art galleries makes it easy to see how narrowing the light source focuses our attention on a key gesture or action. In Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, attributed to the French artist Georges de La Tour and his studio, the holy woman gently removes an arrow from the young soldier, who...
  01/01/11- Ongoing	American Art in the 1930s and 1940s Seattle Art Museum (SAM) American Art in the 1930s and 1940s Presented by Seattle Art Museum (SAM) at Seattle Art Museum (SAM) January 1, 2011 - Ongoing This installation showcases some of the great works from the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection of paintings by Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Emilio Amero, and includes examples from the recent bequest of Marshall Hatch. It features early work by these artists, from the 1930s and 1940s, offering a glimpse of the creative forces that made the Seattle art scene so distinctive in these years. –Patricia Junker, The Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art Image:...

• Upcoming Events

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Past
Events

• Past Events

  01/03/13	Art of the Piano Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  08/20/11- 02/12/12	Here and Now Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  07/16/11- 06/17/12	SAM Next: Mika Tajima - After the Martini Shot Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  07/16/11- 11/27/11	Our National Game Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  06/30/11- 09/11/11	Reclaimed: Nature and Place Through Contemporary Eyes Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  04/21/11	OLD:NEW an ARCADE Educational Event Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
  10/08/10- 01/17/11	Picasso Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

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