Beautiful Things

A century of Seattle, and the art that comes next.

Soft launch now live. Details coming soon as the full object list and tour calendar are finalized.

Two centuries on one floor. Upstairs at the Occidental Fine Arts Center this summer, we hang the historical Beautiful Things, 1850–1950 collection, paintings, photographs, mechanical marvels, and the everyday objects Seattleites once treasured alongside new contemporary work by the Seattle Art Prize Fellows. A century apart, on the same wall.

Reserve a 30-minute tour The AWWW Wall →The Fellows →

Tours every 30 minutes, 12 PM to 4:30 PM. Closed Mondays. Eight people per tour.

From the Fellows

Nine projects, live from the Prize.

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Live tiles from seattleprize.org

The AWWW Wall

Nine pets, a hundred years old.

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Cats & dogs from the CAF collection

Four mechanical wonders in a row from the CAF collection: a Champion vending machine, an ornate slot machine, a stained-glass automatic piano, and a chrome AMI jukebox.

Featured: a row from the mechanical collection. More Beautiful Things highlights coming soon.

Soft Launch · Summer 2026

Beautiful Things is happening now

As the FIFA World Cup arrives in Seattle, visitors are already walking through Pioneer Square and into this exhibition. Programming details continue to roll out week by week.

100

Years of History

Floors of Art

Free

Admission Always

The AWWW Wall

Cats & dogs

One wall of pet portraits. Aw… aw… awww.

Nineteenth-century cats, dogs, parrots, and the children who loved them — all looking right at you from the same wall. Drawn from the CAF collection of Victorian pet paintings. The wall everyone will photograph.

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Visit

Occidental Fine Arts Center

311½ Occidental Ave S · Pioneer Square, Seattle
2nd Floor · Free Admission · Open during gallery hours

A program of the Conru Art Foundation