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 Find your way with maps of all three SAM locations, large print maps for the low-sighted, social narratives, and a smartphone tour.

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Seattle Art Museum

 Plan your visit to Seattle Art Museum. One block from Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, find out about parking, prices, exhibitions, and events!

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Seattle Asian Art Museum

 Plan your visit to Seattle Asian Art Museum. SAM's original location is inside Volunteer Park where parking is always free.

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Olympic Sculpture Park

 Plan your visit to Olympic Sculpture Park. This collection of monumental sculptures is free and offers views of the Space Needle, Olympic Mountains, and Puget Sound!

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Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest

 Mar 5–Aug 2 2026 Explore Northwest Modernism and its Pacific Northwest roots through works by Anderson, Callahan, Graves, Tobey, and other modernist artists.

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Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (Bronze)

 Coming 2026 Ai Weiwei’s monumental Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (Bronze) (2010) consists of 12 zodiac head sculptures arranged in the order of the traditional Chinese zodiac cycle.

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Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan

 May 13 2026–Jan 17 2027 Discover Tara Donovan’s installation transforming industrial materials into mesmerizing sculptures, inspired by Alexander Calder’s Mountains at SAM.

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Samantha Yun Wall: What We Leave Behind

 Feb 5–Oct 4 2026 Samantha Yun Wall, The 2024 Betty Bowen Award winner, navigates transcultural identity as a Black Korean immigrant through her drawings.

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Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light

 Aug 27 2025–Apr 19 2026 Experience Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light at SAM, featuring immersive laser-cut installations exploring light, shadow, Islamic art, and identity.

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A Room for Animal Intelligence

 Nov 28 2025–Nov 1 2026 Visit SAM to meet 100 animal representatives and discover their stories, intelligence, and roles on Earth in an engaging, immersive experience.

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Qiu Zhijie: Map of the History of Science and Technology

 Jan 28 2026–Jan 31 2029 Qiu Zhijie’s Map of the History of Science and Technology visualizes global innovations through art at Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park.

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Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies

 Mar 19 2025–Mar 15 2026 The artist’s largest and most ambitious LEGO work to date, Ai Weiwei's reinterpretation of Claude Monet’s painting is nearly 50 feet long and made from 650,000 LEGO blocks.

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Chris Kallmyer: Song Cycle

 Jan 7 2026–Jan 9 2028 Chris Kallmyer’s kinetic sculpture of ever-changing poetry at SAM’s Brotman Forum blends art, music, and design.

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FriendsWithYou: Little Cloud Sky

 Jun 27 2025–ongoing Experience Little Cloud Sky at SAM’s Brotman Forum, a large-scale installation by FriendsWithYou spreading joy, connection, and positivity through 40 floating clouds.

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Lay Your Burden Down

 Nov 18 2025–Apr 13 2026 Lay Your Burden Down at SAM is a communally created installation by Carina del Rosario, where burdens are transformed into embroidered pillows.

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Ash-Glazed Ceramics from Korea and Japan

 Jul 9 2025–ongoing Explore 34 Japanese and Korean ash-glaze ceramics at SAM, from ancient and medieval pottery to ceremonial vessels fired in anagama kilns.

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Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne EnchantĂŠe

 May 31 2024–May 9 2027 Contemporary artist Diego Cibelli presents a site-specific porcelain sculpture response to the evocative ceiling fresco by Giovanni Tiepolo in SAM's Porcelain Room.

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Yirrkala: Art from Australia’s Top End

 Ongoing Meditations on environmental cycles and our connections to them prevail in art from Yirrkala. Artists from this region use bark as canvases and local earth pigments as paint to bring sacred designs carrying ancient knowledge into view.

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American Art: The Stories We Carry

 Ongoing "The Stories We Carry" transforms SAM's American art galleries through an unprecedented collaboration among SAM curators and staff, artists, and advisors from the Seattle community.

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Lessons from the Institute of Empathy

 Ongoing The popular and immersive "ChimaTEK: Virtual Chimeric Space" by contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk is installed in "Lessons from the Institute of Empathy," surrounded with works from our African art collection as a way to help visitors awaken their empathy.