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The National Nordic Museum shares Nordic culture, values, and ideas with all people to inspire new futures.

📍 2655 NW Market St, Seattle, WA 98107
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🌼👑 Happy midsummer, Seattle! Snag a glowing flower crown free with Nordic Museum admission this week—while they last ➡️ nordicmuseum.org/tickets
June 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Seattle’s feelin’ a little extra Swedish today 🇸🇪 Happy National Day, Sweden 🎉
June 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A little rain won’t stop our neighborhood from showing up and showing out for Syttende Mai! Thanks for bringing the spirit, Ballard. 🇳🇴 ☔
Ballard’s Syttende Mai parade
May 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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 💙 ✨
May 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
🇳🇴 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.
May 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Who's heading to Ballard for Syttende Mai this Saturday? 🤚🎉
May 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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. 💐💛
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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. ✨
May 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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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!
May 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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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.
April 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🍩🍾 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
May 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
✨ 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. 🌿👨‍👩‍👧
April 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🌍 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
April 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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.
April 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
​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.
March 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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?
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📚 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.
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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 ✍️
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.
www.heraldnet.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"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.
March 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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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
March 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Catch us on that iconic Majestic Bay marquee 😎 See you in Ballard tonight, Seattle? #WNFF 🍿🎬
nordicmuseum.org/west-nordic-film-fest
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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

#WNFF
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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. 
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM