Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in January 2007.

The SAM collection has grown from 1,926 pieces in 1933 to nearly 25,000 as of 2008. Its original museum provided an area of 25,000 square feet ; the present facilities provide 312,000 square feet plus a 9-acre park. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1,400 books to 33,252.

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