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Bellevue Arts Museum
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- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Fri. 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sat-Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
13 reviews for Bellevue Arts Museum
I just wanted to leave a quick review from a photographers point of view from shooting a wedding that was held in the museum. What a great place for backgrounds and various solid colors throughout. The staff at the Museum was wonderful and helpful throughout the night. The ceremony was held on the rooftop area, where it's metal and glass only...not ideal while the sun is blazing in August but it worked and the photos came out great.
Parking was free in the underground garage and allowed for fairly quick access for any gear kept in the car.
The wedding party and guest were on the main level after the ceremony. Photos were ideal from the stairway, which allowed for good wide shots of the party.
The main level of the museum had good natural lighting through skylights so use of flashes were minimal. The outside of the museum has a great red wall with benches that make for great shots of the bride and groom against the red wall. The Westin hotel next door also made for a good place to shoot photos both inside and outside.
I'm looking forward to shooting another even there.
Rick
http://www.ricktakagip...
First Friday on the month is free admission day. So, take advantage of it.
I'm going to rate this review partially for the place itself and the primary exhibit I came to see, the Book Borrowers.
First off, the Book Borrowers exhibit was incredible. I went with the thought of, "Hey, that sounds kind of neat." And I left dumbfounded by those artists' work. If you have not seen this exhibit, you should. It will be gone June 14, 2009.
The museum itself was friendly, and I just don't mean by Bellevue standards, the staff was genuinely friendly and helpful. The facility is spotless and a more modern design. Not a bad thing considering it fits Bellevue accordingly, not out of place.
If you've walked by a 100 times and always been curious, go take a peek. The Book exhibit alone is worth the admission.
I'm giving this place four stars because it was a lot cooler than I expected it to be. I went for the Book Borrowers exhibition, which was really cool. Definitely a focus on quality over quantity -- the excavated books were really gorgeous. The quilt exhibit was pretty cool too. I'm not particularly interested in quilts, but the docent was really friendly and had a lot of cool information about the exhibit.
Small and cozy, but it was nicely organized and...succinct (if you can call a museum succinct). I'd go again if there's another exhibit I find interesting.
The Bellevue Art Museum is a nice, but small, museum with a leaning towards the modern.
I learned a great deal about Chihuly glass making and his school in the woods and saw some disturbing macrame.
The price of admission was not unreasonable, given that it is a small museum. You can come and go, so it made it convenient for us to stop for lunch in the middle of our museum trip.
Security followed my kids and I around, only stopping when I watched the security guard as intently as he was watching me. Way to go and make young people appreciators of the arts!
The parking was free, but I think that was because the ticket machine was broken. It is two floors of art that are laid out in an odd shaped rooms. The admission is $9, but the art museum is small. I am not a fan of modern art and so I don't feel like it was worth my time. If it was impressionist art or some of the other styles I like, I might have felt differently.
I think the SAM is better but, my friends and I needed to get a museum visit in for school and they all live closer to this museum, needless to say I got dragged to Bellevue.
The art was ok but, my favorite was one in glass where it felt like walking in a snowstorm. Most of the art was kind of boring and looked like it was ugly on purpouse but, I didn't mind I have a good sence of humor.
One thing that really bugged me was the staff kept looking at me like I was some sort of criminal. One security guard kept following me from exibit to exibit, as if I didn't know. I think that people on the east side just can't get used to a few punky looking college students going to look at art. So much for inspring the young to be artistic.
I really like the Bellevue Arts Museum -- its focus is on high end "craft" rather than fine art as in a museum like the Seattle Art Museum (which I think is overrated, even after the remodel).
I was very surprised about the avant garde exhibits they had there considering the location. I was very pleased and grateful to see Mandy Greer there. I will go back for sure. Close to home and surprisingly forward for the stuffiness of Bellevue.
Concrete, metal, glass and jutting angles make a very cool building and the new focus on arts and crafts makes a very cool museum. I love what they've done with the place, inside and out. They've currently got a Pilchuck Glass School exhibit which is gorgeous. You'll see jewelry and quilts and sculpture and furniture and collage and so much more. You can get espresso in the cafe and park in their garage for free. Admission is totally reasonable - there's no reason not to see this place and every reason to support a museum that gives recognition and support to serious artists outside the mainstream of painting.
This place just reopened recenlty. My boyfriend and I went a few weeks ago and we were impressed with the variety of new exhibits that they had. They were also playing some free live music in the cafe. The museum has really good acoustics. Also, there is a free underground parking. It's never too crowded, so that's another good thing about this museum.
This SoCalian was stranded in Bellevue waiting for my friend and I lucked out and happen to go on Earth Day, which meant free admission for me. Since I still had my rolling luggage on me, the staff was really nice and said it was fine to leave it in their coat checkroom. Beautiful museum and they had some nice exhibits. Can't stop saying how nice the staff was, ranging from security to museum store. Of course, I had to make a donation. SUPPORT THE ARTS!
We live in Bellevue and I finally visited this museum last week (on the first Friday of the month - which is free). Most of the stuff that I saw was quite uninteresting. It almost felt like it would appeal only to someone who is very rich and very disconnected from the real world so anything ugly and abstract with a hint of some elemets like "tribal", "classical" will be percieved as intriguing. It appeared that most visitors view the exhibits as a showcase of craft ideas that they can go home and try on their own. It's more a showcase of brute skill rather than anything to do with art. Out of the 100 or so exhibits, barely 3-4 were interesting. I am not hard to please - I spend hours in museums - but I couldn't connect with anything here. Maybe we went at a time when they don't have good exhibits. We might give it another shot in the future. But my rating is "Meh. I've experienced better"
