MoM Summer 2023 Exhibition Tickets

Museum of Museums (MoM) is a contemporary art center in Seattle, Wa

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. Nearly every inch of the property is art-activated. Give us a visit!

Please select the ticket with your preferred entry time.
Kids under 10 years old get in free.
Arrive at the main entrance at 900 Boylston ave to check in.
Please email us with any questions at info@museumofmuseums.com

On view in The True Space:

Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts

Seattle based ceramicist Emily Counts creates multi-disciplinary sculptures that engage traditional craft techniques to explore identity, memory, mortality, and our relationship to nature. In this immersive installation, Sea of Vapors, Counts has masterfully staged a collective of female figures who are traveling by boat through a dream space to meet their venerated Queen. Each voyager’s physical features are playfully reimagined with abstract shapes, vibrant colors, and rich textures to evoke multi-layered portraits of the self, dear friends, and matrilineal heritage.

Scale, form, and color are experimentally emphasized in this phantastic environment. Ceramic facial structures are graphically sculpted and rearranged in surreal compositions. Nostalgic features of woven sweaters and expressive accessories radiate with colorful illumination to evoke a sense of the past with the futuristic.  

Surrounding the sea-faring travelers are wilting flowers and rotting fruit. These sacred possessions were gathered for the extended journey and their presence conveys the magic of growth and decomposition. The organic materials in-turn reflect the beauty and strength in the transformation of aging human bodies. To Counts, this exhibition is deeply personal and rooted in a habit of navigating through memories. As a multi-sensory experience, the installation aims to be a platform for open-ended narratives for a viewer to consider their own relational perception of time—past, present and the future.

On view in The Malone Gallery:

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. 

Featured Artists: Janelle Abbott, Andrea Alonge, Lou Barcott, Marin Burnett, Colleen Louise Barry, Colby Bishop, Debi Boyette, Colleen RJC Bratton, Stella Bronson, Shiloh Davies, Sam Dienst, Anna Dong, Esra Ebru, Beth Frey, Lydia Gerard, Jo Hamilton, Ant Hamlyn, Jeffrey Heiman, Saina Heshmati, Jaymes Junio, Melissa Kagerer, Yewon Kwon, Michael McKinney, Jennifer McNeely, Mila Textiles, Mark Mitchell, Olivia Montoya, Izzy Nestegard, Leah Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Amanda James Parker, Megan Prince, Psych-Pop, Britt Rodriguez, Vincent Schwenk, Stay Tuft, Dain Susman, Frankie Toan, Nina Vichayapai, and Waxy Fruits.

Additional Exhibits: 

• Lilia Deering invites you to climb inside the depths of a slime monster in her mixed media installation, Enslimed in Toilet #1 
• Mariana Guthiem explores the impact of technology on architecture and creative processes through an immersive installation in Toilet #2 that uses live tracing in AutoCAD to navigate the space between virtuality and reality
• Fondly Yours, a collection valedictions; a handful of balloon ribbons; eight short films about love and loneliness: soft joys and snack-sized heartbreak opens in The Mudede Theater.
• The Video Stairwell gets a refresh with an interactive algorithmic botany exhibit by Sabin Timalsena that allows the viewer to create infinite variations of trees in real-time and destroy them at will.
• Middle school students from Westside School debut new work in The Emergence Room, curated by Colleen Louise Barry
• The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art returns with an all new exhibition of miniature art
• Ummagumma, MoM's Broadway-facing sound installation, projects the sounds of BANGER, a selection of poetry curated by Richard Chiem featuring work by Quenton Baker, Kamari Bright, EJ Koh, and Rae Armantrout
• Locker #141 showcases the work of the museum's insect residents in "The Crawler's Museum," by Catherine Croft