Seattle Art Museum

We take a day trip into Seattle on the ferry from Bremerton and visit the Seattle Art Museum, just a short walk from the ferry terminal (and close to Pike Place Market).  The ferry ride over is spectacular with views of the snow-capped Olympic Mountains behind us and Seattle growing larger as we approach.

Snow-capped peaks

Approaching Seattle

Entrance to the art museum

Welcome to our museum

The Seattle Art Museum contains roughly 25,000 works, with strong collections of Asian, Native American, and modern art.  We enter and wander first into an exhibition of stories in American art

Stories in American art

We next wander into exhibitions of native American Art.

Native American

We continue wandering through more contemporary works.

Continuing through the museum

Upstairs, we come across European paintings, including (to our delight) a few impressionist works.

Europe

Following that, we wander through some more modern works and then head out for lunch.

Ending our visit

We walk up the street a few blocks to Pike Place Market, purchase fresh fish to bring home at Pure Food Fish Market, and then cross the aisle to the Market Grill for grilled fish sandwiches:  halibut and rockfish.

Flower in the market

Lunch

Fish sandwiches

After lunch, we pick up our fresh fish and stroll back to the ferry terminal for the next ship to Bremerton.  As we walk through the waterfront, we see the Olympic Mountains across the water, eventually getting ever larger as the ferry brings us over.

Strolling along the Seattle harbor

Ferry back across the Sound