The Seattle Art Museum’s free today. It’s part of an annual promotion called International Museum Day.

While you’re there, be sure to see Seattle As Collector. It’s a big exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Arts Commission (now called the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, in a typical case of bureaucratic name inflation).

The exhibit includes more than 120 pieces by nearly every Seattle painting, sculpture, and art-photo legend, from those heady days of the ’70s arts-funding boom to the present.

Imagine! The Seattle freakin’ Art Museum, that New Money monument to world-class-osity, actually displaying (and prominently) works by living local artists! ‘Bout time, I say.