Seattle (EMP, Zoo, Aquarium)

The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame ( EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington. The Frank Gehry-designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building. This building is a museum that has sci-fi and music mixed together.


Experience Music Project (EMP) was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and opened its doors in 2000. EMP struggled financially in its early years; as a result, Allen established the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM), which opened in 2004 in the south wing of the EMP building. When SFM opened, EMP and SFM were treated as separate museums, and visitors had the option of purchasing admission to one museum, or, at a higher cost, a combined admission to both. In 2007, after mounting criticism, EMP|SFM ended the separate admissions policy and began charging a single admission price for entrance to both the EMP and SFM wings



Woodland Park Zoo is a zoological garden around the Green Lake neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. As of the summer of 2010, the zoo includes 92 acres of exhibits and public spaces. Its collection includes: 1,090 animal specimens, 300 animal species, and 35 endangered and five threatened animal species.


Let me just tell you how much i love monkeys and this zoo was a great place to see different species. The first monkey we saw was the lion-tailed macaque (muh-KAK) belongs to the family Cercopithecidae, which includes 81 monkey species. There are 15 macaque species, the lion-tailed is one of the smallest. The lion-tailed macaque is native to southwestern India, in the Western Ghats mountains.

Siamangs (SEE-uh-mangs) belong to the family Hylobatidae, which includes all 11 gibbon (or lesser ape) species. Siamangs are native to the island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. Siamangs prefer the middle canopy level, but will travel from tree tops to low bushes while feeding. Siamangs are the largest of the gibbon species. Male and female siamangs are about the same size.

Orangutans (oh-RANG-uh-tans) belong to the family Pongidae, which includes all three great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans. Distinct subspecies of orangutans live on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

Left: The western lowland gorilla belongs to the family Pongidae, which includes four species of great apes: the gorilla, common chimpanzee, bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee and orangutan. Right: Black-and-white colobus monkeys belong to the subfamily Colobinae. Four different species of black-and- white colobus monkey are recognized; the guereza (Colobus guereza), Angolan colobus (Colobus angolensis), Guinea forest black colobus (Colobus polykomos) and the satanic black colobus (Colobus satanas). Black-and- white colobus monkeys are found across equatorial Africa.

Brown bears belong to the family Ursidae, which includes eight species. The Kodiak bear is a subspecies of brown bear found on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Kodiak bears are the largest of all brown bears and the second largest bear in the world.


The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium located on Pier 59 in Seattle, Washington Elliot Bay waterfront. The Aquarium opened on May 20th, 1977 and is owned and operated by the City of Seattle, Department of Parks and Recreation. The Seattle Aquarium is a vital force for marine conservation and is uniquely positioned to help over 800,000 visitors including 50,000 students each year understand and become aware of the impact they have on marine life.
The Aquarium’s recent 18,000 square foot expansion, which opened in June of 2007, includes a variety of new features. Along with a new 2,625 square foot gift store and the Seattle Aquarium Café, two new exciting exhibits have also been added to the facility: Window on Washington Waters & Crashing Waves.