The Olympic Sculpture Park looks like a 9-acre, art history pop-up book. Turn a corner, and sculpture jumps out at you over bridges and train tracks, rises to soar out of a valley and makes memorable intrusions into the waterfront's horizon line, with Puget Sound in the foreground and the Olympic Mountain Range in the rear.

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The art meets the challenge of outshining the view
Since the 1960s, the idea of sculpture parks has taken root around the world, with excellent examples in France, Japan, Holland, England and the United States. Most of the best tend to be large and outside the urban crush. None inside a city has the natural beauty of the Olympic Sculpture Park, which succeeds on views alone.
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Art history comes alive on the waterfront
Thanks to the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle students will be able to see art historical sculptures in person and in the light.

Welcome to the best public space in Seattle
Olympic Sculpture Park is more than a place to plant big sculptures. It is an affirmation of civilization.

The key people behind the park
Profiles of Mary and Jon Shirley, Mimi Gates, Martha Wyckoff, Chris Rogers and more.

Where the money came from
On opening day, when SAM director Mimi Gates steps up to the microphone to acknowledge applause, the first thing she should say is, "Thank you, Microsofties."

Where the money came from
On opening day, when SAM director Mimi Gates steps up to the microphone to acknowledge applause, the first thing she should say is, "Thank you, Microsofties."

Landscape design is built on our NW environment
Art needs a frame, and the frame at the Olympic Sculpture Park is composed nature. Here, our Northwest environment is brought into sharp focus in a relatively limited space. It encompasses montane to seashore settings.

In the end, the site's cleanup took tons of money -- and dirt
An industrial site on Elliott Bay that once oozed oil and gas into Puget Sound has been reborn as the Olympic Sculpture Park, a showcase for world-class art and a refuge for young salmon traversing the shoreline.

Milestones on the rocky road to a waterfront park
Key moments in the development of Olympic Sculpture Park.

Cafe fuses taste with a socially responsible menu
Food at the Sculpture Park's Taste Cafe will have its own connections to land and sea, including a list of suppliers that reads like the roster from a local farmers market.

Leave your spray-paint cans at home
The price of having a sculpture park that lacks fences and can be entered at multiple points is a force field of surveillance.