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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. Admission to the sculpture park is always free. Admission to the other facilities is free on the first Thursday of each month; SAM also offers free admission the first Saturday of the month. And even the normal admission is suggested, meaning that the museum would like visitors to pay the complete admission but if they can not pay fully they can still enjoy the museum. ==History== The SAM collection has grown from 1,926 pieces in 1933 to nearly 25,000 as of 2008. Its original museum provided an area of ; the present facilities provide plus a park. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1,400 books to 33,252. 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. The Art Institute 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).〔Dave Wilma, ("Seattle Art Museum opens in Volunteer Park on June 23, 1933" ), historylink.org, accessed March 11, 2007〕〔"SAM at 75", p. 11.〕 Richard E. Fuller, president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, was the animating figure of SAM in its early years. During the Great Depression, he and his mother, Margaret MacTavish Fuller, donated $250,000 to build an art museum in Volunteer Park on Seattle's Capitol Hill. The city provided the land and received ownership of the building. Carl F. Gould of the architectural firm Bebb and Gould designed an Art Deco/Art Moderne building for the museum, which opened June 23, 1933. The Art Institute collection formed the core of the original SAM collection; the Fullers soon donated additional pieces. The Art Institute was responsible for managing art activities when the museum first opened. Fuller served as museum director into the 1970s, never taking a salary.〔〔 SAM joined with the National Council on the Arts (later NEA), Richard Fuller, and the Seattle Foundation (in part, another Fuller family endeavor) to acquire and install Isamu Noguchi's sculpture ''Black Sun'' in front of the museum in Volunteer Park. It was the NEA's first commission in Seattle.〔"SAM at 75", p. 12.〕 In 1983–1984, the museum received a donation of half of a downtown city block, the former J. C. Penney department store〔"SAM at 75", p. 13.〕 on the west side of Second Avenue between Union and Pike Streets. They eventually decided that this particular block was not a suitable site: that land was sold for private development as the Newmark Building, and the museum acquired land in the next block south.〔Ferdinand M. De Leon, (Money Troubles Cloud Opening Of New Seattle Art Museum ), ''Seattle Times'', December 1, 1991. Accessed online 19 June 2008.〕 On December 5, 1991, SAM reopened in a $62 million〔Timothy Egan (December 10, 1991), (Museum By Venturi Opens In Seattle ) ''New York Times''.〕 downtown facility designed by Robert Venturi.〔David Wilma, (Seattle Art Museum opens downtown on December 5, 1991 ), HistoryLink, September 5, 2001. Accessed online 19 June 2008.〕 The next year, one of Jonathan Borofsky's ''Hammering Man'' sculptures was installed outside the museum as part of Seattle City Light's One Percent for Art program.〔"SAM at 75", p. 14–15.〕 ''Hammering Man'' would have been installed in time for the museum's opening, but on September 28, 1991, as workers attempted to erect the piece, it fell, was damaged, and had to be returned to the foundry for repairs.〔David Wilma, (Seattle Art Museum's Hammering Man falls on September 28, 1991 ), HistoryLink, September 5, 2001. Accessed online 19 June 2008.〕 ''Hammering Man'' was used in a guerrilla art installation on Labor day in 1993 when Jason Sprinkle and other local artists attached a ball and chain to the leg of the sculpture. In 1994 the Volunteer Park facility reopened as the Seattle Asian Art Museum. In 2007 the Olympic Sculpture Park opened to the public, culminating an 8-year process.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seattle Art Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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