It's the smallest gift with the biggest impact—you're giving someone access to a world of art.
Your gift of a SAM Membership will not only provide your friend or loved one with fantastic benefits for 12 months, but you will feel good knowing you are supporting arts in our community.
The lucky recipient of your gift will receive a year of outstanding benefits!
Unlimited free admission to SAM, including exhibitions such as Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue, Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth and new reinstallation American Art: The Stories We Carry.
Valuable savings in SAM Shop.
Opportunity to preview exhibitions before they open to the public.
Access to members-only programming including SAM’s Conversations with Curators lecture series. Hear behind the scenes stories on some of your favorite works in SAM’s collection.
Join as a member today and receive 10% off your gift membership purchases all year long. Don't forget that SAM memberships are tax-deductible!
All gifts purchased on or before December 25 will receive a December 31, 2023 expiration date.
All gift memberships will be mailed directly to the recipient.
Gifts received prior to December 1 will be mailed out the week of December 5.
Gifts received December 1–14 will be mailed out by December 16.
By providing a gift recipient’s email address, the member may receive museum information before they have received their membership materials.
Questions? membership@seattleartmuseum.org
*10% off gift membership purchases at the Individual through Patron levels is available to active SAM Members all year and does not expire. 20% discount on gift membership renewals has been extended through December 2, 2022. Must return the renewal form we provided or call us at 206.654.3210 to redeem this offer. Call to redeem 20% off discount for two or more gift membership purchases at 206.654.3210. All promotions cannot be combined with any other discount/offer or be applied to discounted memberships including Senior, Dual Senior, and Student levels. Offers cannot be applied to previous purchases. Offer is available online, over the phone, and on site. All sales are final.
Images: Couple in Prospect Park, 1990 (printed 2018), Dawoud Bey, American, born 1953, gelatin silver print, 21 7/8 x 17 1/2 inches, Grand Rapids Art Museum, museum purchase, 2018.22. Narragansett Bay, 1861, John Frederick Kensett, oil on canvas, 14 x 24 in., Gift from a private collection, 2001.1054. Installation view of American Art: The Stories We Carry at Seattle Art Museum, 2022, photo: L Fried.
Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future. Learn more about Equity at SAM