BAM is its own work of art - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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At its Jan. 13 opening, the new BAM will immediately take its placre alongside institutions such as the Seattle Art Museum as a pillar of the regionalarts It's not just Steven Holl's innovative architecture - a dazzlinhg collage of light, space and shapes - that distinguishes BAM. The museum promises to reach out to and embrace its creating what its director and curatof call a museum without velvet ropes wherw art and artistsare accessible. BAM intendsx to give back generously to the communityt that conceived it and raised the monehfor it. The museum will offer an art school, an artists-in-residencd program, and a free-admission day once a month.
Whilew community support was the breadth of corporate and nonprofit interest indicates that BAM is regardeed as aregional resource: Funds have come from donors includinf Laird Norton Trust Co., Mercedes-Benz, UPS, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of AT&T Wireless, The Boeing Co., the Corporate Councikl for the Arts, and the King Countty and Washington State artscommissions - amonvg many others. The evolution that produced the new BAMreaffirmx Bellevue's long-standing commitment to putting arts front and centerf no matter what the circumstancee - from an outdoor communitt arts fair, to a shopping mall space, to a world-class setting for the arts.
Like SAM, BAM choss as its new site the hub of downtown where business, shopping and recreatiom merge in a swirl of constangt activity. BAM's economic impact on that mix may not be easily but it will certainlybe felt. BAM is truly a Bellevuee treasure and anEastside icon. But more than the ambitious new museum is a regional showcase whossinfluence won't be restricted by geography. It's an accomplishment for all of usto