MAY 2008
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Wing Luke Asian Museum
Seattle Art Museum
Gray Line of Seattle
"Lucy" the Famous Fossil
Alaska Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Wing Luke Asian Museum Celebrates the Opening of Its New Home
The Wing Luke Asian Museum will celebrate the grand opening of its new 60,000-square-foot home in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District on June 3, 2008. The Wing Luke Asian Museum is the only Pan-Asian Pacific museum in the country and is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate. Its mission is to involve locals and visitors in issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans. The museum includes a special exhibition gallery that features Asian Pacific American topics; the Governor Gary Locke Library and Community Heritage Center, a premier resource offering Asian Pacific books, journals, news articles and collections showcasing rare artifacts, photographs and oral histories; KidPLACE, an area with exhibitions aimed toward the younger museum visitor; and the George Tsutakawa Art Gallery for up-and-coming Asian Pacific American artists. Docent-led group tours are available. For more information, visit www.wingluke.org.
Seattle Art Museum to Host Impressionism Exhibition
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is the only West Coast venue for Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, an exhibition that will feature masterpieces by Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Édward Manet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. Inspiring Impressionism features nearly 100 works, including paintings and works on paper from more than 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States. Exhibition highlights include traditional landscapes, still lifes and portraits by old masters such as Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Claude Lorrain that are shown along side Impressionist works such as Monet’s Summer and Renoir’s Confidences. Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past will run at SAM June 19-Sept. 21, 2008. For more information on this exhibition, visit www.seattleartmuseum.org.
Gray Line of Seattle Offers Two New Food Sightseeing Tours
Gray Line of Seattle is offering two new culinary tours during its summer season. The "Flavor of Seattle Culinary Arts Tour" will introduce tour participants to some of Seattle’s premier chefs from several of the city’s top restaurants. Participating chefs and restaurants vary depending on the date. The chef will meet the group at the tour’s origin at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and lead the way to their favorite local market. After the supplies have been gathered, the group will head back to the chef’s restaurant for a professionally prepared meal with the ingredients just purchased. For a list of dates and participating restaurants, visit www.graylineseattle.com and look under Sightseeing Tours.
Gray Line of Seattle is also partnering with Seattle culinary instructor Diane LaVonne for a Pike Place Market tour. The tour starts at Pike Place Market where LaVonne will not only take the group shopping but make introductions to shopkeepers and vendors who make the market so special. The group will then head back to LaVonne’s kitchen a few blocks away, where she will demonstrate how to prepare an authentic Northwest brunch with the ingredients purchased at the market. For tour dates and times, visit www.graylineseattle.com and look under Sightseeing Tours.
"Lucy" the Famous Fossil Comes to Seattle
"Lucy," the oldest, most complete and best preserved adult fossil ever discovered, will have her West Coast debut at the Pacific Science Center in an exhibit titled Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia, Oct.4, 2008 through March 8, 2009. The famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton is 40 percent intact and in the 34 years since her discovery has continually impacted the way scientists understand the origins of humans. Through additional artifacts spanning millions of years, visitors will also experience the country of Ethiopia, Lucy’s homeland and a country important in the study of paleoanthropology. For more information, visit www.pacsci.org.
Alaska Airlines Announces Two New Routes Beginning Fall 2008
Alaska Airlines has announced that it will inaugurate two new routes this fall, one between Seattle and Minneapolis and another between Seattle and Kona, Hawaii. The airline will offer year-round, twice-daily flights between Seattle and Minneapolis starting Oct. 26 and will begin year-round once-a-day service between Seattle and Kona beginning Nov. 17. Alaska Airlines will fly a Boeing 737-800 on the routes, accommodating 16 passengers in first class and 141 in the main cabin. For more information, visit www.alaskaair.com.
Northwest Airlines Announces New Non-Stop Between Seattle and Beijing
Northwest Airlines has announced it will begin new daily non-stop service from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Beijing, China on March 1, 2009. The new route will give Northwest four non-stop international routes to and from Seattle. Other routes include Amsterdam, London and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.nwa.com.
Journalists are encouraged to contact the following SCVB public relations staff for answers to questions or for more information:
David Blandford, (206) 461-5806
dblandford@visitseattle.org
Heather Bryant, (206) 461-5805
hbryant@visitseattle.org
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