Top rated Museums in Seattle, United States to elevate your visit (Updated June, 2024)

Top rated Museums in Seattle

Experience the best that Seattle has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 32 places from Museum category.

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Aviation Pavilion

Museum

👍👍 This is by far the most comprehensive avation museum. Having test fields for Boeing on premises adds to the feeling.

4.90 (676 reviews) (~9.59 km from centre)

Connections Museum

Museum

Telecommunications history museum displaying vintage telephones, telegraphs, switchboards & more.

4.90 (206 reviews) (~7.02 km from centre)

Charles Simonyi Space Gallery

Museum

👍👍 Exactly how big is a Space Shuttle? Come climb aboard! So much more!

4.90 (200 reviews) (~9.7 km from centre)

Ballard Locks Visitor Center, Museum and Gift Shop

Museum

👍 I was surprised by the exhibits upstairs. Though small, it was very thorough and informative, and best of all, free. Gift shop was stocked and staff was very pleasant. There were even brochures for other activities in the area. Definitely worth a pop in.

4.90 (107 reviews) (~8.56 km from centre)

The Museum of Flight

Museum

Large educational museum with aircraft & space vehicles on display, plus historical exhibits.

4.80 (15K reviews) (~9.81 km from centre)

Gallery Erato

Art gallery

👍👍 Love this place with my husband 💕

4.80 (78 reviews) (~0.57 km from centre)

Sea Mar Museum of Chicano/a/Latino/a Culture

Museum

👍👍 Visited the museum today October 2, 2023..The Seamar Chicano museum provides a timeline on the migration of Mexicano farmworkers into Washington state. The exhibit focuses on the farmworker and then into Chicano activism at the University of Washington, the Seattle community and the development of...

4.80 (47 reviews) (~9.78 km from centre)

Seattle Asian Art Museum

Art museum

Asian art & artifacts housed in an art deco building from the 1930s set in a greenery-filled park.

4.70 (773 reviews) (~3.17 km from centre)

Northwest African American Museum

Museum

Established museum showcasing changing exhibits about African-American culture, history & art.

4.70 (494 reviews) (~2.67 km from centre)

Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center

Cultural center

😠 What a shame! Looms abandoned and run down. Make employee out front on phone going on and on about nonsense was not the peaceful entrance I expected. Empty and random metal folding chairs on lower level. A few pieces of art upstairs horribly displayed. Gift shop closed because employee didn’t show u...

4.70 (443 reviews) (~9.72 km from centre)