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 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 ...

There’s a sign at the exit of IKEA that says “Hej då! That’s how we say ‘bye-bye’ in Swedish.” I saw it a few months ago while my daughter and I sat eating soft-serve ice cream before we drove back to ...

The Nordic Museum’s grand opening events officially began May 1, and continues through the weekend with receptions, galas and tours for museum members, donors and VIPs (including the crown princess of ...

"Lots of boats, lots of sagas, more boats," program manager Jon-athan Sajda says as we walk through the second floor of the new Nordic Museum. This is the part of the museum that traces the Nordic ...

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 ...

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the Spring Arts Preview. Click here to subscribe. It’s been nearly ten years since the leaders of Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum, ...

After 20 years of dreaming and planning, around $52 million of fundraising and a 21-month construction project, Ballard’s new Nordic Museum — an ambitious art, heritage and cultural center with old ...