The largest police museum in Western US, the Seattle Police Museum established in 1997 takes visitors through the history of the Seattle Police department and its efforts at enforcing the law in the city of Seattle.
The museum is located in the historic Pioneer Square in Downtown Seattle. The facility has artifacts from the 1880s when law enforcement was performed by the King’s County Sherriff’s office. Visitors to the institution can view weaponry, uniforms and an array of police related artifacts. An abandoned building in Pioneer Square was transformed into the museum by police officer James Ritter and his colleagues at the Seattle Police department. The institution is supported the City of Seattle and its Police department.
Besides police memorabilia, the museum has interactive displays including a jail cell and a 9-1-1 dispatcher console, two fully restored vintage police cars and a large research library with photographs and documents from the 1800s to the present. Visitors can learn of some of the most notorious crime cases dealt with by the department in the library.
Visitors to the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum can get a wealth of information on law enforcement in Seattle and take back memories by purchasing mementoes from the museum gift shop.

Akanyi African & Tribal Art Gallery is located in the Pioneer Square District, Seattle. It is one of the few galleries in Seattle displaying one of the largest African art collections in the U.S.A. You can admire valuable pieces of African art, historic tribal art and so much more.

Occidental Park is a public park located in the historic Pioneer Square District. The park is in the heart of Seattle’s largest art gallery district. The S Main Street bisects the facility and the northern half of the park is also called Occidental square while the area to the south is also called Occidental Mall.
The site of the Occidental Park was once the Savoy Hotel. The former pioneer Square Savoy Hotel was torn down to establish a parking lot. The park spanning over half an acre was built over this parking lot during the general renovation of Pioneer Square in 1971. The park is a cobblestone plaza open to the public where tourists, art lovers, shoppers and wanderers visit every day.
Works of art at the occidental park include totem poles carved by eminent Chinookan carver Duane Pasco. The totem poles depict the welcoming spirit of Kwakiutl, a totem bear, the tall sun and raven and a man riding on a whale. The park also has a fire fighters memorial with bronze sculptures of fire fighters in action by sculptor Hai Ying Wu. Granite slabs surrounding the sculpture have the names of firefighters who died doing their duty from the Great fire of 1889 till the present.

The Stonington Gallery, opened in 1979 is an amazing three floors of spectacular art. It displays some of the most beautiful pieces of art of the best Alaskan and Northwest Coast artists. The Gallery has gained a great reputation for itself, especially for its extremely knowledgeable and friendly staff.

Fireworks Fine Crafts Gallery, started in 1985 by Michele Manasse, is today a leading woman-owned business in the Seattle metropolitan area. It offers amazing international and national works of art of talented artists. In the Fireworks Gallery can be found home accessories, women's jewelry and clothes, children's stuff and so much more.

Maynard is a five storey low rising building constructed in the Queen Anne - Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style. Today it houses mainly office space, in a beautiful designed interior. Maynard Building is a favorite piece of architecture in Pioneer Square Area.

The Pioneer Square Park also known as the Pioneer Square Plaza is a small triangular brick and cobblestone plaza located in the middle of old Seattle. The area around the Park provided the lumber for Henry Yesler’s steam powered sawmill that was the first industry established in what later grew to become the city of Seattle.
Pioneer Square Park features a totem pole made by the Tlingit tribe of southeastern Alaska and a bust of Chief Seattle perched upon a drinking fountain. The park is lit by turn of the century lamps that preserve the early ambience of Seattle. In 1909, an ornate iron pergola was built for the first international fair held in Seattle, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition of 1909. The pergola now stands over an underground restroom. The restroom at Pioneer Square Park is considered the finest underground restrooms in the US. The structure also shelters people who wait for the streetcar. The pergola was knocked down by a speeding truck in 2001 and fully restored in 2002.
Pioneer Square Park is located where Yesler Way and James Street meet. The Pioneer building, the starting point of an underground tour that tells visitors the story of historical Seattle before the 1889 great fire is located behind the park.

The first skyscraper in Seattle, the Smith Tower was built in 1914 and became the tallest building at the time west of the Mississippi River until 1931. The building located in Pioneer Square still bears the old world charm of early skyscrapers with gothic style towers.
Smith Tower is named after the promoter of the building, L. C. Smith who made his fortune manufacturing typewriters and small firearms. The building has 38 floors accessible by the last remaining manually operated elevators in Seattle. The tower has an observation deck on the 35th floor with spectacular views of the waterfront, Pioneer square and the mountains surrounding Seattle.
The building that houses 540 offices was built of steel and bronze and used very little wood. E.E. Davis, a firm of steel contractors built eight tower floors during a single week though troubled by constant rain. The steel framework was then covered with ornate white terra cotta.
The 35th Floor of the Smith Tower has the well known Chinese Room with its carved wood and porcelain ceiling and elaborate Chinese wooden furniture including an ornate Chinese wishing chair.
Visitors to Seattle, especially those who are interested in early skyscraper architecture should not miss visiting Smith Tower to admire the architecture or to take in the view from the observation deck.