Travel Reference
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SIGHTS
The waterfront is the thin strip of land between Elliott Bay and the soon-
to-be-dismantled Alaskan Way Viaduct. Downtown is bounded east-west
by I-5 and the Alaskan Way Viaduct along with (by most estimations)
Olive Way to the north and Cherry St to the south. Pike Place Market sits
to the northwest of the downtown core.
The entire western portion of downtown (including Pike Place Market)
between 2nd Ave and the Viaduct is sometimes referred to as the West
Edge, although, on the ground, it's hard to differentiate between the two
neighborhoods.
Downtown
PIKE PLACE MARKET
MARKET
See
Click here
.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
MUSEUM
See
Click here
.
HAMMERING MAN
MONUMENT
( University St)
Although not unique to Seattle,
Hammering Man,
the 48ft-high metal
sculpture that guards the entrance to the Seattle Art Museum on the corner of 1st Ave
and University St, has become something of a city icon since it was raised in 1992.
The sculpture, whose moving motor-powered arm silently hammers four times per
minute, 364 days a year (he has Labor Day in September off), is supposed to represent
the worker in all of us. It was conceived by Jonathan Borofsky, an American artist from
