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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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Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism

 Oct 23 2025–Jan 18 2026 Featuring more than 50 works of Impressionism through the lens of French culinary tradition by artists ranging from Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro, to Eugene Boudin, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Victor Gabriel Gilbert.

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Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest

 Mar 5–Aug 2 2026

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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei

 Mar 12–Sep 7 2025 See over 100 iconic works by Ai Weiwei in the artist's largest-ever exhibition in the US. This is his first solo exhibition in Seattle and his first US retrospective in a decade.

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

 Opening 2025 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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Suchitra Mattai: she walked in reverse and found their songs

 Apr 9–Jul 20 2025 Suchitra Matti weaves materials marked by the past into a collective story of migration and gendered labor. In "Suchitra Mattai: she walked in reverse and found their songs," Mattai examines the power of memory in creating her own stories: sometimes factual, sometimes fantastical, with divergent pieces collapsing and combining into something new.

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Tariqa Waters: Venus is Missing

 May 7 2025–Jan 5 2026 Tariqa Waters is the 2023 Betty Bowen Award Winner. For her solo exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, Waters will present new work in an immersive environment.

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FriendsWithYou: Little Cloud Sky

 Jun 27 2025–ongoing

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Samantha Yun Wall: 2024 Betty Bowen Award Winner

 Opening Spring 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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Bethany Collins: At Sea

 Nov 14 2024–May 4 2025 Bethany Collins is the recipient of the 2023 Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Prize, awarded biannually by SAM since 2009 to an early career Black artist—defined loosely as an artist in the first decade of their career.

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Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder

 Nov 20 2024–Jun 1 2025 See sculptural visions by American artists Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) and Alexander Calder (1898–1976) brought together for how their forms interact with gravity.

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Lessons from the Institute of Empathy

 Mar 31 2018–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.

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Selections from the Shirley Family Calder Collection

 Nov 20 2024–Jun 1 2025 SAM is the proud recipient of 45 works by the iconic American artist Alexander Calder from The Shirley Family Calder Collection—one of the most important private holdings of Calder's art. This installation demonstrates a selection from this transformative gift.

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Diego Cibelli: Fiori dei Miei Habiti / La Montagne EnchantĂŠe

 May 31 2024–May 10 2026 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

 May 10 2024–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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Impressionisms: The Global Nineteenth Century

 Mar 27 2024–ongoing The works in this gallery reveal continuities between European and American art over the course of the 19th century.