The National Nordic Museum’s annual Julefest returns Nov. 21-23 with Scandinavian food, crafts, and live music in Ballard.

The two-day event will bring wood-fired saunas, ice baths, live music, and Nordic cuisine to the city’s waterfront.

The Nordic people have fostered one of the world’s greatest storytelling traditions, from the Icelandic Eddas to the Viking Sagas to Norse myths on down to the recent Scandinavian mystery boom that ...

The Seattle Sauna Festival brings regional saunas, cold plunges, live music, and Nordic food to Ballard’s National Nordic ...

The next time you go to the National Nordic Museum in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, you could meet an actual Knight. But odds are, he won’t be wearing shining armor. His Majesty, King Harald the ...

SEATTLE — The striking zinc-clad structure rises dramatically from the street, long, narrow and high, rather like a fjord. It’s a perfect setting for Seattle’s new National Nordic Museum, which opened ...

This January, The Nordic Heritage Museum is bringing back the Nordic Lights Film Festival for a second year. The festival features films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and takes ...

Having envisioned something "cute," perhaps of white clapboard construction, visiting Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was wide-eyed beneath the white walls of Seattle's year-old National Nordic Museum. "I ...

Ballard’s Nordic Museum may be about to get some national recognition from Congress. This week, the Senate passed a broad federal lands bill by a vote of 92-8, which includes protections for federal ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump address hundreds of military leaders. by Michael Harthorne The Nordic Heritage Museum is starting March with a new chief curator and two new ...

Maybe it’s the hygge hype or perhaps it’s just because we love foraged and pickled foods, but Nordic cuisine is the darling of the current food world. Sadly, though, there are few places to try it ...

Standing inside the dark museum on a recent wintry evening, I picked up a small bell jar, brought it up to my face and gave it a good, deep sniff. I closed my eyes. Hm. Smells milky and soft. I’m ...