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.
