Museums in Seattle

Discover 11 unusual museums in Seattle.

Museum entrance

Seattle, Washington

Northwest African American Museum

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

Permanently Closed

Seattle, Washington

Museum of Museums

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Anastasia Zielinksi's "Rainbow Showers," a stairwell art installation.

Seattle, Washington

Inscape Arts and Cultural Center

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Seattle, Washington

Off the Rez Cafe

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Seattle, Washington

Rubber Chicken Museum

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Ichthyology Collection

Seattle, Washington

Burke Museum Ichthyology Collection

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Permanently Closed

Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum

Seattle, Washington

Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum

The largest police museum in the western United States displays the evolution of crime-fighting Seattle.

1910 store

Seattle, Washington

East Kong Yick Building at the Wing Luke Museum

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Herbert H. Warrick Jr. Museum of Communications

Seattle, Washington

Connections Museum

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Enthralled by the machine...

Seattle, Washington

Seattle Pinball Museum

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Quiet day at the old Bad Art Museum of Art

Seattle, Washington

Seattle's Official Bad Art Museum of Art

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Are we missing something unusual in Seattle?