Free First Thursday: Seattle Art Museum
Schedule
Thu Jun 04 2026 at 10:00 am to 08:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Seattle Art Museum | Seattle, WA
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Photo: Alborz KamalizadCall your friends and bring the family, admission is FREE to everyone at the Seattle Art Museum on the first Thursday of every month. In addition to our regular hours, Seattle Art Museum will be open for Free First Thursday evenings from 5–8 pm to provide more opportunities to visit the galleries for free! Evening hours will feature extra activities like live music, drop-in art making, and in-gallery experiences for visitors.
Tickets are available both onsite and online.
11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 6 pm | Public Tour: Highlights from SAM’s Collection
These 60-minute tours meet at the top of the 3rd floor escalators.
5–8 pm | Drop-in art activity with Jessie Blackmer
Brotman Forum
5–8 pm | EarthCorps youth photographers reception
1st Floor Community Gallery
In EarthCorps’ Media and Nature Internship, South King County high school students use cell-phone photography to explore the wild side of urban ecosystems at SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park. These photos invite you to pause, look closer, and appreciate nature from new angles. Swing by the public reception to meet the artists!
5:30–7:30 pm | Seattle Hall-Of-Fame All-Stars Performance
South Hall
This band of local Jazz icons has been holding the bar high for decades, while also keeping Jazz visible and vibrant in Seattle. Each shares a direct musical lineage to the musicians of the Jackson Street scene and continues their legacy today by passing it on. Scheduled to appear: Marc Seales, Phil Sparks, Thomas Marriott, Jay Thomas, & John Bishop. Presented by Seattle Jazz Fellowship to complement Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest.
5:30–6:30 pm | SAM Gallery artist talk
SAM Gallery
6–7 pm | Beyond Mysticism Public Tour
This tour meets at the 4th floor special exhibition entrance.
7-7:30 pm | Spotlight Talk: Zola Mumford on Washington Hall
4th Floor Galleries
Join historian Zola Mumford for a short talk and Q&A about the history of Washington Hall. Learn how you can collect and preserve histories in your community. Zola Mumford is an academic librarian, researcher, writer, and Co-Leader of the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, a project of Wa Na Wari. Her work includes a Washington Hall HistoryLink.org essay and audio recording in "Frequencies", a 2026 project of the Henry Art Gallery (Bloomberg Connects).
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