Olympic Sculpture Park
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The Olympic Sculpture Park is a public park in Seattle, Washington opening in January, 2007.[1]
The park will consist of a nine acre outdoor sculpture museum and beach.[2] The park was designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architects, along with Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture and other consultants. It is sited at the northern end of the Seattle seawall and the southern end of Myrtle Edwards Park. The former industrial site was occupied by the oil and gas corporation Unocal until the 1970s and subsequently became a contaminated brownfield before the Seattle Art Museum proposed to transform the area into one of the only green spaces in Downtown Seattle. The park will be operated by the Seattle Art Museum, which also operates an expanded main branch at First and University Streets and the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill.
As a public outdoor sculpture park with both permanent and visiting installations, it will be a unique institution in the United States.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Seattle Art Museum press release
- ^ Seattle Parks Department official site
- ^ "There's nothing else like this in the country" for outdoor art, says artist, Seattle Times, July 25, 2006
