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Seattle Museums

Seattle Museums - Art, history, science, children

Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Celebrates the natural history of Seattle and Washington.

Center for Wooden Boats

A hands-on museum celebrating Seattle's maritime heritage.

Children's Museum

Located in Seattle Center, this museum caters to kids.

Experience Music Project

Located near the Space Needle and Seattle Center, the Experience Music Project combines interactive and interpretive exhibits about the history of American popular music.

Frye Art Museum

A fine small museum with emphasis on painting and sculpture from the nineteenth century to the present.

Log House Museum

A restored 1904 carriage house, sometimes called the Birthplace of Seattle.

Museum of Communications

Learn about the history of the telephone and the central office switches that made the system work.

Museum of History and Industry

Telling Seattle's stories.

Nordic Heritage Museum

Exhibits about northwest history and Nordic pioneers.

Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center

An interactive museum focusing on ocean trade, fishing, recreation and the environment.

Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection

This outdoor museum features living art.

Pacific Science Center

Science exhibits, laser shows, IMAX movies.

Science Fiction Museum

Located with the Experience Music Project, this facility celebrates science fiction writing.

Seattle Aquarium

Located on the Seattle waterfornt, the aquarium displays exhibits about sea and river otters, salmon and other sea creatures.

Seattle Art Museum

The museum hosts many traveling exhibitions and hold a permanent collection of over 23,000 objects, specializing in Asian, African, Northwest Coast Native American, modern art, and European painting and decorative arts.

Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum

The largest police museum in the western U. S., located in Pioneer Square.

Museum of Flight

Their collections include a Gokker D.VIII, the first presidential jet, and the largest collection of aerospace artifacts in the western United State.

Wing Luke Asian Museum

Culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans.

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