Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum on Capitol Hill, and the open Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on January 20, 2007. The collection has grown from 1926 pieces in 1933 to nearly 25000 in 2008. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1400 books to 33252. Among the museum’s notable exhibitions (besides Treasures of Tutankhamun) were a 1954 exhibition of 25 European paintings and sculptures from the Samuel Kress Foundation, these pieces were donated to the museum in 1961. A 1959 Van Gogh exhibit drew 126100 visitors.