Museum of Museums (MoM) is a contemporary art center in Seattle, WA.
Nearly every inch of the property is art activated.
Housed in a renovated mid-century medical building, MoM hosts two formal exhibition spaces, three additional on-site museums, rotating installations, murals and sculpture, a theater, weekly art classes, pop-ups, and conceptual gift shop.
Our mission is to increase the artist population of Seattle and inspire our local arts ecosystem through exhibition, education, and conversation about the role of the artist, philanthropist and collector.
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GUM BABY by Tariqa Waters
In the True Space, Tariqa Waters tells a story of the sticky contradictions and dualities inherent to vices rooted in Americana-distorted memories and tall tales in her immersive installation, GUM BABY. A subversive wonderland of glass sculptures, lighting and imagery, GUM BABY is a temporary memorial to the assured. An anachronism cleverly placed which upends the notion of self-control and agency.
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Soft Touch
Soft Touch is an immersive, tactile survey of soft sculpture and textile art featuring over 40 artists from the Pacific Northwest and far beyond. Audiences are invited to sit, stand, or recline in a gallery cushioned by a patchwork of futon mattresses, shag carpets, and curtaining as they explore work that interweaves themes of identity, humanity, and natural ecosystems.
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"CHROMESTHESIA"
"CHROMESTHESIA" - an interactive environment conceived and hand-painted by China Faith Star.
China Faith Star is an auto-didactical, overly practical, visual trickster, and sound/word mixer. Born in Los Angeles to Punk Flower Children and raised in a world of diverse interactions, she fled to the woods to bathe with trees. China is a conjurer of ideas - transmuting socio/political/emotional concepts into aesthetically visceral maps and translations - popping color, repetitious pattern, dimensional texture and meditative expression.
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BANGER at Ummagumma
MoM’s sound installation returns with a poetry collection titled BANGER, curated by Richard Chiem. Featuring four of Seattle’s most prominent poets, the ones you stay for when you enter the room, the ones that follow you around like a ghost long after the reading, the ones w/ powers that work well beyond the page. They are Rae Armantrout, Quenton Baker, Kamari Bright, and E.J. Koh. These poems break the glass, these poets break convention. The shards become you. Enter the sky, dreamy and airborne, you will never touch the ground again.
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The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art
The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art is the only full-scale miniature Art Museum in Seattle. This Winter, SMAC is pleased to bring present “What’s For Dinner?” - a series of exhibits about food and relationship by Bearly Arthur, Ill, Edie Woolf, and Baron Von Sparkles Sculptures, located in the in the Flerps Gallery. In the Atrium Gallery, view Open Source - an installation by LeeLoo Mintermute.
And in the Box Galleries, view in and our New Work by Gray.
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Proving Ground by Jeff Rufus Byrd
Byrd reimagines the view from Camp Milliman in a video installation that provides a window into a dream. Byrd is a performance and video artist who has presented work all over the globe. He has exhibited in over 75 group exhibitions, and has performed at notable venues as Lincoln Center in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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The Crawler's Museum by Catherine Croft
Locker #141 debuts its first installation, "The Crawler's Museum," by Catherine Croft. In this mixed media installation, Croft hands the space over to the insects of the museum. “We overheard you are looking for someone to fill locker 141 with some art and it just so happens that the locker, while small for you humans, is the perfect size for us little fellows. We would like to use this space to show off the works created by the resident insects, arachnids, and worms of MoM; The Crawlers Museum.”
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Promise The World Your Love by Kristen Terry Ramirez: A Retrospective
Museum of Museums is proud to announce the creation of the Ramirez Room, in honor of the late Kristen Ramirez, to showcase emerging and mid-career artists working in the Pacific Northwest. We are honored to inaugurate this gallery with a small retrospective of Kristen’s work.
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Supreme Art from Magical Beings! : An Exhibition by Artists 6-16
The Emergence Room is a rotating, monthly showcase of visual art that celebrates young artists 6-16 from around the Pacific Northwest.
This winter, we welcome “Supreme Art from Magical Beings” by K-5 Montlake Elementary School students.
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Scope Screenings at The Charles Mudede Theater
Scope Screenings began in June 2022 with 7 consecutive monthly screenings at The Crocodile's Here-After theater. Since its inception, it has been a growing community for filmmakers, industry professionals, photographers, musicians, and creatives of all kinds.
The festival places a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion, highlighting films from underrepresented voices and perspectives.
Come and see short-form videos with a big time impact!
Scope Screenings will be on display in the Mudede
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Doomsparkle : MoM Edition
Video Stairwell Installation by Seattle Design Nerds x GrayKai. Creation within “Doomsparkle” is a collaborative dance between the seen and unseen, the corporeal and ethereal. It invites you to ponder what secrets plain spaces hold in your life
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Textile Stairs Mural
Tufted stair mural debut by Rain Sissel.
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Crystal Cave by Kerstin Graudins
Kerstin Graudins conjures magic and delight with her immersive bathroom installation "Crystal Cave" in Toilet #3. Inspired by her love of travel, the installation serves to inspire new experiences and perspectives. “I want you to find magic and delight in this bathroom as well as inspiration to travel to expand your view of the world,” she explains.
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MoM Gift Shop
This unique gift shop showcases 63 items as an ever-rotating selection!
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Banana Mural by Ariel Sparrow
Located in the first floor of MoM.
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Provisional Body
By Gracelee Lawrence in the front lawn of MoM.
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LAUTHING SKIES
Entryway by Nikita Ares.
Nikita was born in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines in 1996, and has lived in Seattle since 2014. Her work consists primarily of drawings and paintings inspired by intimate moments. The movements and energies of humans and objects interest her and she creates variations of these gestures in her work.
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Chilkat in South Beach
Mural by Nahaan.
The color palette was inspired by my time when Nahaan lived in South Beach, Miami, Florida and brings forward traditional chilkat weaving design work in a contemporary way. “Our people were travelers along time ago and were inspired and influenced by nations aside from ours. This helps to diversify and generate creativity that embodies different ways of viewing the world”.
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Sasquatch Daydream
by Crystal Barbre. “Sasquatch Daydream” is an ode to Mary Catherine's and all of the strong women of the Pacific Northwest that have battled cancer.
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Heavenly Future Portal
By Ari Glass.
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LENA
Mural by Barry Johnson.
