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Seattle Art Museum
100 University Street
Seattle, Washington 98101
(206) 654-3100
Introduction
Occupying a Robert Venturi-designed building in downtown Seattle, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) boasts a collection of approximately 23,000 objects, ranging from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary American photo and video installations. The museum offers noteworthy permanent collections of Asian, African, Northwest Coast Native American, modern and contemporary art, European painting and decorative arts. SAM also maintains an ambitious schedule of traveling exhibitions. A 300,000 square foot expansion to SAM’s downtown building is underway with the first phase expected to be complete in 2007.
The museum is closed during this expansion and is expected to open in Spring 2007.
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