National Nordic Museum

🌼👑 Happy midsummer, Seattle! Snag a glowing flower crown free with Nordic Museum admission this week—while they last ➡️ nordicmuseum.org/tickets

Seattle’s feelin’ a little extra Swedish today 🇸🇪 Happy National Day, Sweden 🎉

Slow down. Sink in. 🌿

Tickets now on sale for our Elemental SoundBaths—an immersive, meditative experience blending Nordic-inspired ambiance with live sound healing in one of the Museum’s most serene spaces.

🗓️ June 27-29 | 📍 Osberg Great Hall

Reserve your space ➡️ nordicmuseum.org/soundbath

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A little rain won’t stop our neighborhood from showing up and showing out for Syttende Mai! Thanks for bringing the spirit, Ballard. 🇳🇴 ☔

Happy #InternationalMuseumDay 🏛️ A day that reminds us why we do what we do. In a time of growing challenges for the arts, we’re grateful to everyone who continues to show up and engage 💙 ✨

🇳🇴 A celebration older than Washington State is lighting up Ballard today! Happy Constitution Day, Norway—Syttende Mai festivities are officially ON in the heart of Seattle’s Nordic community.

Celebrate the 17th of May in Ballard Seattle's festivities are the largest Syttende Mai celebration outside of Norway - join us for the fun on Saturday, May 17!

Check out all the fun 17th of May neighborhood happenings, including festivities at the Museum: nordicmuseum.org/events/17th-of-may

Who's heading to Ballard for Syttende Mai this Saturday? 🤚🎉

Mor, Mamma, Móðir, Mom—no matter what you call her, she’s at the heart of it all. Wishing a heartfelt Happy Mother’s Day from all of us here at the Nordic Museum. 💐💛

We danced, we bid, we raised a record-breaking $765,000 💃🕺 Thank you for lighting up the 39th Northern Lights Auction—your support keeps the Museum shining bright. ✨

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Mom trip day one was yesterday and we found 2/6 trolls (one with @kiikiibee.bsky.social ), ate some Thai, and went to the Nordic museum!

Belt Weaving on an inkle loom. The belt is about 3 inches wide. It has a symmetrical pattern of a thin white border with black dots from the weft followed by a black semi opalescent field with pale gray star dots. The center of the pattern is a rainbow with purple edges and red in the center the threads are picked into a knot work pattern that is slightly puffed out from the black field of the band. The weaving is around the pale wood peg of an inkle loom and the shuttle in in the weaving where the warp threads continue past the woven section. The whole thing is on a back round of white linnen.

Bifröst! Current pick-up weaving on the loom! I'll be donating it to the National Nodric Museums annual Northern lights auction! It's inspired by the famous rainbow bridge from Norse mythology.

🍩🍾 Happy May Day, Seattle! From Finland’s Vappu to Sweden’s Valborg, May 1 celebrates spring, community & tradition. Think grad caps, munkki (cardamom doughnuts), tippaleipä (funnel cakes), and park picnics with a glass of sima—a sweet, fizzy mead. #MayDay #NordicTraditions

✨ Free First Thursday is this week ✨ Enjoy free admission and extended hours this Thursday as we celebrate the season with open doors and longer days. 🌿👨‍👩‍👧

🌍 FREE admission to the Nordic Museum this Earth Day, April 22!

Explore our LEED Gold-certified building, meet troll Frankie Feetsplinters (made from recycled materials!), and take in extraordinary landscapes in "Illuminating Nordic Archives."♻️

#EarthDay #FreeAdmission #SeattleEvents

ICYMI: today *and* tomorrow, we’re serving up samples of Lakrids by Bülow's iconic chocolate-covered licorice in the Museum Store 🍬 Swing by the register for a sweet (& slightly salty) treat in honor of #InternationalLicoriceDay.

​It's Frankie Feetsplinters' 2nd spring in Seattle 🌷🤙 With sunny skies ahead, it's the perfect week to visit Ballard for a leisurely walk around the Locks, snap a selfie with everyone's favorite trollm, & explore the beautiful interplay of spring light in the Museum's Fjord Hall.

You know spring has officially sprung when your museum picks up two unexpected mascots 🦆🌸 This charming couple has been hanging around quite a bit lately...maybe scouting some prime real estate?

📚 Did you know the Nordic Museum has its own research library? With 19,000+ resources, it’s a trove of Nordic-American history.

📷 UW Scand student Erik Moe researching his thesis on the 1925 Norse-American Centennial, exploring how Viking imagery shaped Norwegian-American identity & whiteness.

12 great things to do in Seattle when it rains | HeraldNet.com An iconic city synonymous with rainy weather, Seattle brilliantly showcases that drizzle can’t dampen its spirit.

And the forecast says...🌧️ When you’re ready to duck out of the rain this week, come through & get toasty in our galleries—and check us out on this list of the best things to do in Seattle when it pours ✍️

"Illuminating Nordic Archives" has arrived in Seattle ✨ Anne-Karin Furunes’ portraits, made of thousands of hand-pierced holes, reveal forgotten histories through light and shadow—a technique that has to be seen to be believed.

A triangular shaped carved wooden ’tingle’ that fits on both the bow and stern of a Viking ship; it is carved with early Viking imagery

For #MakersmARTch #Carved we have a tingle carved from alder wood by O. Jay Haavik. The design represents the ‘gripping beast’ motif found in early Viking art.

#Viking #Norwegian #Tingle #Oseberg #Seattle #NationalNordicMuseum #Ballard #Nordic #Haavik

Catch us on that iconic Majestic Bay marquee 😎 See you in Ballard tonight, Seattle? #WNFF 🍿🎬
➡ nordicmuseum.org/west-nordic-film-fest

How we feel about the fact that the *first-ever* West Nordic Film Fest kicks off TOMORROW in Ballard 😱 Get ready for a weekend of incredible films from Iceland, Greenland, & the Faroe Islands. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/yczwzd7p

📽️ OMMAN / GRANDMOTHER (Faroe Islands, 2019)
Dir. Julia í Kálvalíð

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This is one of the amazing paintings that was put on display yesterday at the National Nordic Museum. It is the work of Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes. I am so excited to see the rest of her show opening soon at the museum. 

It was my honor to welcome Dr. David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry to give his Nobel Lecture tonight at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. His work, and that of his lab, is truly bringing about a more hopeful future.

2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dr. David Baker of the Institute of Protein Design at the University of Washington gave an inspired lecture of what de novo protein designs can achieve in Medicine, Technology and Sustainability at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. 900 people attended.