A cornerstone of Seattle's performing-arts scene, A Contemporary Theatre, universally known as ACT, has been staging professional drama in the city since its founding in 1965. Now housed in the beautifully restored Eagles Auditorium Building on Union Street downtown, the company specialises in contemporary plays and new work, and the move into its landmark home gave it one of the most distinctive theatre complexes in the Pacific Northwest. The building is unusual in housing several performance .....

In the waterfront neighbourhood of Ballard in north-west Seattle, the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, almost universally known as the Ballard Locks, are one of the busiest sets of navigation locks in the United States and a much-loved free attraction for visitors and locals alike. Designed by United States Army Corps of Engineers Major Hiram M. Chittenden, the locks officially opened on 4 July 1917 to connect freshwater Lake Washington and Lake Union with the saltwater Puget Sound through the eight-m.....

A beloved neighbourhood hangout on Beacon Hill, the Clock-Out Lounge is a Seattle bar that doubles as a pizza joint and an intimate music venue, all rolled into one welcoming space on Beacon Avenue South. Opened in the late 2010s, it was conceived as a community-minded gathering place that could serve drinks and slices by day and host gigs by night, and it has become a cherished fixture of the city's south end. The front of the venue operates as a relaxed bar and lounge, serving cocktails, beer.....

Rising beside the railyards and waterfront on the southern edge of downtown Seattle, Lumen Field is one of the most formidable stadiums in American sport, renowned above all for the deafening noise of its home crowd. Opened in 2002 on the site of the demolished Kingdome, the stadium was designed as an open-air, partially roofed venue and serves as the shared home of the city's professional football and soccer teams. The stadium seats around sixty-eight thousand for football and can be configure.....

Rising beside the railyards and waterfront on the southern edge of downtown Seattle, Lumen Field is one of the most formidable stadiums in American sport, renowned above all for the deafening noise of its home crowd. Opened in 2002 on the site of the demolished Kingdome, the stadium was designed as an open-air, partially roofed venue and serves as the shared home of the city's professional football and soccer teams. The stadium seats around sixty-eight thousand for football and can be configure.....

In the heart of downtown Seattle at the corner of Fifth Avenue and University Street just steps from Pike Place Market and the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Illusions is the Seattle branch of an international chain of interactive illusion museums founded in Zagreb in 2015 and operating in some forty cities worldwide. The Seattle venue opened in November 2022 in a brightly lit basement space beneath the historic Rainier Square complex, drawing on the steady flow of downtown office workers, to.....

In the heart of downtown Seattle just a short walk from Pike Place Market, the Original Selfie Museum is one of the city's most popular small interactive photography attractions. The venue opened in August 2020 in a converted second-floor space at the corner of First Avenue and Union Street, joining the international wave of similar selfie-focused photo museums that proliferated in major cities during the late 2010s as social media made shareable personal photographs an increasingly important pa.....

In the heart of the Seattle Center cultural campus directly beneath the iconic Space Needle, the Pacific Science Center is one of the most heavily visited science museums on the West Coast and a defining piece of mid-century modernist architecture in the Pacific Northwest. The complex opened in April 1962 as the United States Science Pavilion of the Century 21 Exposition (the Seattle World's Fair), designed by the celebrated Seattle-born architect Minoru Yamasaki (later best known for the origin.....

On the Pier 59 waterfront in downtown Seattle just below Pike Place Market, the Seattle Aquarium is one of the largest aquariums in the Pacific Northwest and one of the most heavily visited aquariums on the West Coast. The aquarium opened in May 1977 in a converted World War I-era pier originally built in 1917 to handle freight for the Alaska steamship trade, with the conversion preserving much of the original timber pier structure while inserting modern climate-controlled exhibits throughout. .....

Just north of downtown Seattle in the Lower Queen Anne neighbourhood, the Seattle Center is the city's principal cultural and entertainment campus and the legacy of the 1962 Century 21 World's Fair. The seventy-four-acre campus was developed as the fairgrounds for the six-month exposition that ran from April through October 1962 and drew nearly ten million visitors to Seattle, putting the city firmly on the international cultural map and producing the iconic Space Needle that has defined the Sea.....