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Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

Internationally renowned museum exhibiting and collecting objects from around the world

Seattle Art Museum

For seven decades, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has been a leading visual arts institution in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Art Museum, is a world-class arts institution with three locations, the Seattle Art Museum, downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park and the Olympic Sculpture Park in Belltown. SAM collects and exhibits objects from across cultures, exploring the connections between past and present. Currently the collection consists of approximately 23,000 objects.

Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti

Michelangelo Public and Private Seattle Art Museum

October 15, 2009 - January 31, 2010

This exhibition brings one of art history’s greatest figures to Seattle for the first time. Drawn exclusively from the collection of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, the show explores Michelangelo’s complex personality and different aspects of his life and career. Centered around twelve original drawings by Michelangelo, the exhibition also features portraits of the artist, personal documents, and decorative arts from the Casa Buonarroti.

The primary focus of the exhibition is Michelangelo’s preliminary work for the Sistine Chapel in Rome, including a selection of working drawings for the Sistine Ceiling and the Last Judgment. Together, these objects give modern viewers insight into the artist’s working process, from sketches to finished studies. This exposure would have appalled Michelangelo, who burned many of his drawings hoping to sustain the idea that divine inspiration, not human labor, was responsible for his celebrated masterpieces.

The Casa Buonarroti was founded in 1612 by Michelangelo’s great-nephew as a monument to his famous relative, on the site of the artist’s former home. Housing original works of art, including the largest collection of Michelangelo's drawings in the world, it now acts as the protector of the artist’s legacy.

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act

October 15, 2009 – April 11, 2010

From miniature maquettes, works on paper and jewelry to monumental sculptures and one of the artist’s largest mobiles, this exhibition offers viewers a sense of the range of Alexander Calder’s work from 1927 through the mid-1970s. More than forty original works of art—many of them from Jon and Mary Shirley's extensive collection, which is rarely seen by the public—trace the development and amazing creativity of the American master sculptor, with particular depth in his most celebrated period, the late 1940s. Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act is complemented by a related exhibition of photographs showing the artist at work, organized with the help of the Calder Foundation.

Package Summary

Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
Price: 2009-2010
Oct - Sep 6, 2010 $15
Season: Year-round
Duration: Wednesday–Sunday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Thurdsay & Friday: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Inclusions:
  • Admission ticket to the SAM

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