Seattle Art Museum Revenue and Competitors

The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an art museum located in downtown Seattle, Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. The Seattle Art Museum opened on June 23, 1933 in an Art Deco building designed by Carl F. Gould of the architectural firm Bebb and Gould in Volunteer Park. The building was donated to the city by Richard E. Fuller and his mother, Margaret MacTavish Fuller. The starting collection was from the Art Institute of Seattle, of which Richard Fuller was president, and the Art Institute was responsible for managing art activities when the museum first opened. The Art Institute had housed its collection in Henry House, the former home, on Capitol Hill, of the collector and founder of the Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry (1844-1928). The Art Institute in turn traced its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906), which merged in 1917.[1] The museum's main collection moved to its present location at 100 University Street in December 1991, at which time the old building was renamed the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The new building at University and First Avenue was completed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates at 150,000 square feet with a 28,100,000 dollar budget.[2]