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My Favorite Pieces at the Seattle Art Museum

Visiting museums is one of my favorite parts of travel, and the Seattle Art Museum was no exception. Seattle was full of incredible ones–I also loved the Experience Music Project and Olympic Sculpture Park.

The impressive art museum in downtown features modern art, Native American art, African art, Japanese art, Islamic art, American art, European art, and other works from all over the world. I also enjoyed an exhibit that talked about the truth and fiction behind the representation of Pacific Northwest Native Americans in the Twilight movies (yeah yeah, judge me all you want). Here were just a few of my favorite pieces.

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
An unusual installation at the entrance! Inopportune: Stage One, 2004, by Cai Guo-Qiang
Seattle Art Museum
“Heart Sutra, the shortest and most popular Buddhist text, is incised onto the surface”

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
Native American totem poles

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
The artist, Do Ho Suh, made this with dog tags with gibberish (see up-close below). Some/One, 2001.

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
This represents the opression the artist experienced in Eastern Europe

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum
African tribal costumes

Seattle Art Museum

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