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Top 23 places in Washington for Art
byShiry
Live update: Updated July 26, 2021Copy link
Copy link1. Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
ShiryA regional museum preserving and exhibiting history, arts and culture with activities for all ages.
2. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
3. Bellevue Arts Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryBellevue Arts Museum provides a public forum for the community to contemplate, appreciate, and discuss visual culture. We work with audiences, artists, makers, and designers to understand our shared experience of the world.
4. Cascadia Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryWe feature paintings, prints, photography and sculpture created exclusively by artists active in the Northwest during the mid- 19th through the mid-20th centuries. With few exceptions, this fertile period of our creative history has been largely overlooked and understudied. The Cascadia Art Museum employs a series of five galleries; the Gateway Gallery changes yearly and features an overview of artistic activity created within the parameters of our focus. The remaining four galleries are dedicated to changing quarterly exhibitions.
5. Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
6. Confluence Gallery and Art Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryConfluence Gallery and Art Center is the only non-profit gallery and art center in Okanogan County, WA. For almost 30 years Confluence has brought artists, students and viewers together to enrich the lives of all. Our programming offers a quality gallery experience, art education and diverse cultural events for all ages.
7. Coupeville Arts Center
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8. Frye Art Museum
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9. Gallery One Visual Arts Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryGallery One Visual Arts Center is dedicated to the creation, exhibition and appreciation of visual arts in the center of Washington.
10. Henry Art Gallery
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11. Jefferson Museum of Art & History
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryA Museum located in the Victorian Seaport of Port Townsend, WA focusing on the art and heritage of Jefferson County, Washington.
12. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe new Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is more than a place to view and experience art. The design, by Jim Olson of Olson Kundig and prominent campus location, increases access to the arts for the entire Inland Northwest region. It is designed as a beacon for the arts, inviting visitors to experience the vitality of art at Washington State University. In both location and design, the building brings art to the forefront of university life. Olson’s design concept of a mirrored crimson cube rewards viewers with an ever-changing landscape with which to view themselves and the world around them. Six galleries of rotating art exhibitions by prominent national artists await visitors. Admission to the museum is free, and everyone is welcome!
13. LeMay – America’s Car Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLeMay – America’s Car Museum is an international destination for families and auto enthusiasts to celebrate America’s love affair with the automobile and to learn how automobiles shaped our society.
14. Maryhill Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryHoused in a majestic Beaux Arts mansion overlooking the Columbia River Gorge, Maryhill Museum of Art is one of the NW’s most fascinating cultural destinations. Explore world-class European & American art, an extensive American Indian art collection, sculptures and watercolors by Auguste Rodin – one of the largest collections in the US – and much, much more. Rotating special exhibitions feature artists of regional, national and international renown. Cafe, museum shop, sculpture garden, & picnic grounds on-site. In 2012 the museum opened its 25,000 square foot Mary & Bruce Stevenson Wing, featuring a dedicated arts education suite, a cafe with terrace seating and sweeping views of the Gorge and Mount Hood.
15. Northwest African American Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) is a place for all communities to learn more about the history, art, and culture of people of African descent. We produce enriching and thought-provoking exhibitions and public programs that foster lifelong learning. The Museum is housed in the historic Colman School building located in the heart of the Central District just above the I-90 lid overlooking Jimi Hendrix Park and majestic Mt. Rainier.
16. Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
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17. Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum
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18. Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
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19. San Juan Islands Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShirySan Juan Islands Museum of Art – IMA – is San Juan County’s first fine visual arts museum. Created by enthusiastic art-minded islanders more than a decade ago, IMA has hosted an impressive stream of highly professional exhibits from paintings and photography to sculpture, by regionally, nationally and internationally renowned artists. On December 5, 2014 IMA has opened the doors to its new permanent home – a dramatic architect-designed light-filled atrium building.
20. Schack Art Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShirySchack Art Center is an admission-free visual art center in downtown Everett, WA. Our exhibit galleries are open seven days a week and feature diverse artwork from locally and internationally known artists, as well as emerging young talents.
21. Tacoma Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
22. The Sidney Museum and Arts Association
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Sidney Museum and Arts Association, a nonprofit organization founded in 1970, is dedicated to preserving local history and promoting arts. SMAA established and maintains the Sidney Art Gallery and the Sidney Museum located in the original Masonic Hall built in 1908 and the Log Cabin Museum built in 1914 in Port Orchard, WA. The Sidney Art Gallery & Museum building is on the national and state historic registers.
23. Whatcom Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Whatcom Museum occupies three distinctive and historically significant buildings in downtown Bellingham’s cultural district.
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