Seattle Art Museum (Corporate Name)

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Old catalog heading: Seattle. Art Museum

LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Seattle. Art Museum (org. informally 1906 as Seattle Fine Arts Association; formally org. 1908 as Seattle Fine Arts Association; formally org. 1908 and was already using name Seattle Fine Arts Society; changed name 1928 to Art Institute of Seattle and in 1933 to Seattle Art Museum)

What's happening at SAM and SAAM, Fall 1999: t.p. (Seattle Art Museum)

Wikipedia, April 16, 2014 (The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on January 20, 2007; established 1933; SAM traces its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906), which merged in 1917, keeping the Fine Arts Society name. In 1931 the group renamed itself as the Art Institute of Seattle; museum opened June 23, 1933; The Art Institute collection formed the core of the original SAM collection; Location: 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, Washington; Coordinates: 47.607222°N 122.338056°W; Type: Art Museum) Japanese page (シアトル美術館 = Shiatoru Bijutsukan)

Its WWW home page, April 16, 2014 (SAM; Seattle Art Museum) Visit (1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101) http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/