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The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an Art Museum located in Downtown Seattle , Washington USA. Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month. The Seattle Art Museum opened on June 23 , 1933 in an Art Deco building in Volunteer Park , given to the city by Richard E. Fuller and his mother, Margaret MacTavish Fuller. The starting collection was from the Art Institute of Seattle, of which Richard Fuller was president, and the Art Institute was responsible for managing art activities when the museum first opened. The Art Institute had housed its collection in Henry House, the former home, on Capitol Hill, of the collector and founder of the Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry (1844-1928). The Art Institute in turn traced its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906), which merged in 1917. "Seattle Art Museum opens in Volunteer Park on June 23, 1933" , historylink.org, accessed March 11, 2007 Directly in front of the museum is Hammering Man , a 1994 sculpture that also appears in other cities around the globe. In 2006, the Seattle Art Museum began expanding its 1991 location in a joint effort with , 2007 . Accessed online 7 May 2007 . Because of the construction, the museum's downtown location was closed from , 2007 . Accessed online 7 May 2007 . SAM also runs the Olympic Sculpture Park on the Seattle waterfront, which opened on January 20 , 2007 . NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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