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The Raven & the Light
The sculpture by Iole Alessandrini is a microcosm of both the sky and Seattle. This project invites visitors to contemplate the interplay between the Raven and the Light and is a portal to the celestial universe, a place to discover the sky through SkyView® Lite, a free stargazing app. This interactive display was inspired by…
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Monorail Man
Monorail Man was created by the Seattle Monorail Services Maintenance Team from discarded parts from the Monorail trains and stations.Fun fact: Monorail Man was built with about $15 in scrap metal. The Monorail was constructed in eight months at a cost of $4.2 million for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition, a world’s fair hosted at Seattle Center. Century 21 broke…
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Flame No. 2
The bronze Flame by Egon Weiner was initially installed at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, a gift by Building Construction Magazine in recognition of the fair’s architectural and engineering achievements. The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World’s Fair) was held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during…
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Plymouth Pillars Park
Those pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Plymouth Congregational Church, built in 1873. In the late 19th century, amid widespread hatred of Chinese immigrants, this church supported immigrants’ rights. During the 1909 World’s Fair, it hosted the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, advocating for women’s right to vote. After sustaining structural damage…
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Olympic Sculpture Park
Seattle Art Museum | Opened 2007 | Free & Open Daily, from dawn to dusk Once a contaminated industrial site, now a 9-acre urban oasis, the Olympic Sculpture Park transforms art-viewing into a walk in the park — literally. Opened in 2007 and run by the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), it stitches together city, shoreline, and…
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Seattle Center Totem
The 30-foot-high pole features a Hawk, Bear (holding a salmon), Raven and Killer Whale. Why is it weathering naturally instead of being renovated?
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Axis Lounge
Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan created Axis Lounge inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s song. Axis Lounge’s light colors vary from night-to-night, depending on Arena happenings and civic events. Different color combinations mark special observances and team colors. Red and blue lights play on NHL Kraken games, while green and yellow lights play on WNBA Storm games.…
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Chris Cornell statue
Born and raised in Seattle, Chris Cornell was one of the most prolific songwriters and iconic voices of the modern rock era. “Black Hole Sun” is known for being the pinnacle of Soundgarden’s career. The song reached # 1 on Billboard’s mainstream rock charts and # 2 on their modern rock charts. Soundgarden received a…
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Neototems
Seattle artist Gloria Bornstein based the piece on a Salish legend that whales once used an underground spring to pass between the two bodies of water. In the early 20th century, ethnographer John Peabody Harrington described a black hole on the beach of Seattle’s waterfront, “two blocks up from Pike Street,” called Sh tsh pau,…
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Neototems Children’s Garden
Seattle artist Gloria Bornstein’s creation is a fairy tale garden extension of Neototems. It depicts a whale surrounded by five small bronze fantasy sea creatures in a tidal pool. The baby whale 🐋 depicted in the Children’s Garden is a calf from the pod represented in Bornstein’s Neototems. Killer whales, also known as orcas, have…
