You don’t have to drive to Portland for the solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. Seattle will experience a partial eclipse (about 92% of the sun will be blocked). Here are the places in Seattle where you can watch it with special glasses or via live stream if it’s cloudy.
SEATTLE
BluWater Bistro Leschi
Choose between an entrée or a specialty “eclipse cocktail” at Bluwater Leschi on E Day, and receive a free pair of eclipse glasses. Raise your glass and protect your retinas!
Bryant Neighborhood Playground
This eclipse party is geared toward kids and teens, who can observe the 92 percent occlusion of the sun at 10:21 a.m.
Central Library
Hang out inside the library and watch NASA’s live screening of the eclipse, which will include footage from spacecraft, the International Space Station, and high-altitude weather balloons.
Greenwood Park
Bring your own eclipse glasses to this viewing party put on by the Phinney Neighborhood Association. They’ll also have pinhole boxes available.
High Point Public Library
Find out how to watch the total eclipse without damaging your eyes, then stay on to see it take place. There will be free safety glasses while supplies last. The event will be canceled if it’s too cloudy.
Museum of Flight
This eclipse watching party presents NASA officials and a screening of NASA’s MegaCast, which will include footage from spacecraft, the International Space Station, high-altitude weather balloons, and the Gulfstream C-20A Science Aircraft (stationed at the museum itself, so you can greet it as it returns from its mission!). There will be 1,000 free safety glasses (included with museum admission) handed out to the first arrivers.
Pacific Science Center
On the occasion of the momentous astral spectacle, the science museum will open early for eclipse-viewing activities (included in museum admission). Watch the show through solar telescopes or safety glasses, or via live stream if it’s cloudy. They’ll also have hands-on eclipse demonstrations.
South Park Community Center
Watch the eclipse safely through free eclipse glasses—available while supplies last—and learn how to make a simple projection viewer. The event will be canceled if it’s cloudy or rainy.
EASTSIDE
Bellevue Library
If you’re lucky and get there early enough, there may be free eclipse glasses with your name on them. Kids can make paper planes and try them out on KidsQuest Children’s Museum’s airplane launcher.
Redmond Regional Library
The library will have some free viewing glasses for the public.
DOWN SOUTH
Des Moines Library
Gather on the green outside the library to watch the eclipse through free safety glasses.
Great American Casino
“Get mooned in Lakewood” and enjoy refreshments, entertainment, and free solar glasses—included in the $10 ticket.
Pierce College Science Dome
Learn about the solar eclipse before you see the sun mostly blocked by the moon. The Science Dome will have safe eclipse viewing methods on hand, stream the sun’s disappearance live, and conduct pre- and post-event demonstrations and talks.
UP NORTH
Shoreline Library
Stand in the shadow of the moon, free eclipse glasses offered (while supplies last).
Northgate Library
Adults and kids are invited to learn all about the eclipse, participate in hands-on activities, then watch it through provided glasses.
OUT OF TOWN
Central Skagit Library
This library is creating a little festival out of its eclipse-watching event, with free hot dogs and viewing glasses (while supplies last), a solar telescope, live streaming, a “Solar Walk,” and, after the eclipse, a plasma ball and activities like solar energy explorations and sunscreen paintings. From 5 to 6 p.m., kids can hang out at a “Picnic on the Moon Pajama Storytime” with moon cheese sandwich-making.
Jefferson County Library
Pick up your free eclipse viewing glasses and watch the sky during the solar occlusion.
John Storvik Playground, Anacortes
Picnic with the fam and watch our local star black out with our local moon.
San Juan Island National Historical Park
Steal away to an island to watch the solar eclipse with San Juan Island Family Nature Club and other sponsors. They’ll have plenty of methods to view the spectacle, plus solar print activities and renewable energy info.
Washington State Library, Olympia
Representatives of the Tacoma and Evergreen Astronomical Societies will share their knowledge of the solar eclipse before you watch it safely together.
