(Image: Seattle Asian Art Museum)
Capitol Hill’s Seattle Asian Art Museum is ready to return to full power. Four years after pandemic restrictions closed its doors and after a few years of step by step return to more normal days at the Volunteer Park art venue, SAAM will finally get back to its pre-COVID schedule as it returns Wednesdays to its schedule starting next week.
Beginning August 28, the Seattle Asian Art Museum in historic Volunteer Park adds Wednesdays back to its calendar, bringing the museum to a schedule of five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm.
To celebrate, the museum is inviting the community to enjoy opening day of the new exhibition, Meot: Korean Art from the Frank Bayley Collection for free. Meot: Community Opening Day is Wednesday, August 28 and is free and open to the public. To attend, purchase free admission to the museum for that day.
The historic building reopened on February 8, 2020, after a three-year renovation and expansion—only to close again on March 13, 2020 due to the COVID pandemic. It reopened on May 28, 2021, with a three-day-a-week schedule and added Thursdays back to the schedule on October 5, 2023. Now, it’s back to a full five-day-a-week schedule that aligns with the schedule of the Seattle Art Museum in downtown Seattle.
CHS reported here last September as SAAM added Thursdays back to its offerings.
SAAM returned from its pandemic shutdown in May 2021. SAAM has shuttered in mid-March 2020 as COVID-19 numbers climbed. Only weeks earlier, the building had reopened after three years of closure and construction to overhaul and expand the museum.
The return of Wednesday’s will bring a free celebration of SAAM’s new Meot show featuring the work of more than 60 Korean artists.
Learn more about SAAM and the free community opening day for Meot at seattleartmuseum.org.
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