Frye Art Museum Seattle

At the Frye Art Museum, you will experience some of the best and complete collection of Paintings from the Munich School from the West Coast and important collections of the kind anywhere in the United States. The collections represent works of American colonial painters to the American realist painters of the contemporary era. You will also have the opportunity to enjoy paintings from reputed names like Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler and William Merritt Chase. The museum is also home for the most comprehensive collections of paintings from Alaskan painters in the United States. More exhaustive information of the museum can be accessed from http://fryemuseum.org/

Admission to the museum located at Terry Avenue is free. The museum is closed on Mondays and on other days is open to public from 10 am to 5 pm. On Thursdays however, the museum is open till 9pm. Visit http://www.scn.org/arts/frye/ for further details on the museum

Free parking is provided across the street and from downtown Seattle, Metro buses 3, 12 and 4 provide will provide you the access. The following website has interesting reviews and anecdotes about the museum.

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And, if you happen to be looking for hotel in Seattle closer to the museum, downtown hotels will offer affordable rates and convenience.

Apart from the most beautiful paintings, the museum also hosts Puppet shows which are alluring for the young and old alike. Interestingly, in recent times Puppets have carved out their own niche in the modern world through films, computers, games, theater and animation. The power of puppets has thus been recognized as a useful medium to communicate with people in a different genre though.