Seattle Center

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Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition. It is located just north of Belltown in Lower Queen Anne.

View of the Space Needle from the Seattle Center.

The Center is home to:

The annual Northwest Folklife, Bite of Seattle, Seattle International Children's Festival and Bumbershoot festivals and the many smaller festivals associated with Festál at Seattle Center.
The Space Needle.
One terminus of the Seattle Center Monorail.
The Bagley Wright Theatre, Leo Kreielsheimer Theatre and PONCHO Forum, home of Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Center House, formerly known as the Food Circus, which includes a food court, the Center House Theater, the Children's Museum and The Center High School. Before the World's Fair, the building was an armory.
The Center School

International Fountain

The Experience Music Project.
The Fisher Pavilion.
The Fun Forest amusement park.
The Intiman Playhouse, home of the Intiman theater company.
The International Fountain.
KeyArena, home court of Seattle SuperSonics and Seattle Storm basketball and Seattle Thunderbirds (Western Hockey League) ice hockey. This is a rebuilt version of what was once the Coliseum.
McCaw Hall, home of the Seattle Opera and shared as a performance space with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose ballet school is adjacent. This is the third performance space on this site, the second being the Opera House built at the time of the World's Fair.
Memorial Stadium, a high school football and soccer stadium, which predates the World's Fair.

Center House, Seattle Center

The Mercer Arena
The outdoor Mural Amphitheater, featuring a mosaic mural by Paul Horiuchi.
The Northwest Rooms, a small conference center.
The Pacific Science Center, home of the Boeing IMAX Theater, Eames IMAX Theater, and Laserium.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
The Seattle Center Pavilion
A skatepark.
The Winterfest festival that starts from November 24-January 1
The Seattle Children's Theatre
The VERA Project

Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle Center

[edit] Trivia

In 1978 the touring King Tut Exhibition ("Treasures of Tutankhamen") visited the Seattle Center Pavilion in its capacity as a special exhibit space for the Seattle Art Museum. Attendance topped 1.3 million and the proceeds helped restore the finances of the Museum.