Saturday is The Smithsonian’s Museum Day 2009. That means you and a guest can get FREE general admission to any of the participating museums just by downloading one of these admission cards. Ballard’s Nordic Heritage Museum is one of the participants, where they recently opened the first Northwest solo exhibition of Swedish photographer and video artist Maria Friberg. […]
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Restored ‘Nordic Spirit’ sails again
On the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Norway Day celebration in Seattle, the Viking ship replica Nordic Spirit hit the open water Sunday for the first time since it was painstakingly restored. The boat was donated to the Nordic Heritage Museum 30 years ago, and after months of restoration work by boatwright Cornelius Sprenger and […]
Museum seeks volunteers for ambitious project
The Nordic Heritage Museum is looking for volunteers to help with their new oral history initiative, “Nordic American Voices.” The ambitious plan is to record the life histories of Nordic immigrants and their descendants to the Pacific Northwest, focusing on WWII occupation and resistance. A 15-member steering committee, with representatives from each of the five […]
Update on new Nordic Heritage Museum
After 25 years in its current home, the Nordic Heritage Museum is planning to move to a new location on Market St. (map) in 2014. The architects for the new facility — Mithun Partners, which are known for creating REI’s flagship store in Seattle — recently released the first set of preliminary designs. In addition […]
Longtime Nordic Heritage Museum volunteer dies
When she was 90 years old, Herbjørg Sortun Pedersen stood on a ladder hanging birch boughs at the Nordic Heritage Museum for Norwegian Constitution Day. She passed away a few days ago at 95, an active, longtime Ballard resident with deep roots in the neighborhood. Pedersen was instrumental in starting the art gallery in the […]
Nordic holiday spirit at Yulefest 2008
The Nordic Heritage Museum’s annual Christmas festival, Yulefest 2008, was in full swing when we stopped by on Saturday evening. The event features over a dozen music and dance groups in three locations. In the auditorium, the Katrilli Finnish Folkdancers dazzled the crowd. Every nook and cranny of the museum features Nordic arts and crafts. […]
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