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The Olympic Sculpture Park offers monumental contemporary sculptures and breathtaking views of the Space Nee dle, Olympic Mountains, and Puget Sound.
This new waterfront park gives Seattle residents and visitors the opportunity to experience a variety of sculpture in an outdoor setting, while enjoying the incredible views and beauty of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound. Admission is free.
The Olympic Sculpture Park, created and operated by the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), is a public park with modern and contemporary sculpture in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The park, which opened January 20, 2007, consists of a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) outdoor sculpture museum, an indoor pavilion, and a beach on Puget Sound. [1]
One of the best parks is the Olympic Sculpture Park (OSP). The OSP is a part of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). It is a lovely place to take a stroll and view sculpture art.
Olympic Sculpture Park is ranked #11 out of 27 things to do in Seattle. See pictures and our review of Olympic Sculpture Park.
Roy McMakin Love & Loss, 2005–6. Commissioned specifically for the Olympic Sculpture Park, Love & Loss features benches that are functional and meaningful. A tree forms the v of “Love,” which blossoms and loses its leaves seasonally, a reminder of nature’s cycles, which mirror human experience.
The Olympic Sculpture Park is Seattle's largest downtown green space, an imaginative reuse of former wasteland between the waterfront, the railway tracks and Western Ave. Zigzagging pathways cut between giant sculptural forms and angular steel constructions, dropping down to a shingle beach that is often strewn with driftwood.
Jan 20, 2017 · Looking out at the park and the surrounding slices of Seattle framed by The Eagle’s wings and legs—the art, the land, and the architecture—we are reminded of the way people came together to build this unique green space in the downtown corridor.
Olympic Sculpture Park is less a park, and more a waterfront trail with art sculptures along the path. By far the most captivating has to be the fountain, which switches heights, revealing another sculpture beneath the water.
- 2901 Western Ave Seattle, WA 98121
Jan 6, 2011 · As a “landscape for art”, the Olympic Sculpture Park defines a new experience for modern and contemporary art outside the museum walls. The topographically varied park provides diverse ...
