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Video: The New Nordic Heritage Museum
07.23.2009 Mithun
The Nordic Heritage Museum website offers a link to a video about the museum's future home. In it they describe the new museum's goals and purpose as part of their ongoing capital campaign. Below are some selected quotes:
The new building will offer more light, more Nordic design because it's being created in a Nordic fashion.
Victoria Sangrey-Hunter
Our goal isn't so much to create a museum of artifacts, the goal really is to create a museum that resonates with Scandinavian values and to inform people how those values shaped American values. Seattle is the perfect place to tell that story.
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One of the amazing things about Scandinavian culture is that it brings with it an amazing sensitivity to being socially responsible.
Ralph Appelbaum, Museum Planner
It's really a living, breathing center that brings life to Ballard but also the Nordic American community.
Rich Franko, Lead Architect, Mithun Principal
I have strongly promoted the idea that there would be a connection with Nordic culture today - a strong connection. I would think that would turn the museum into a living, active cultural institution.
Juhani Pallasmaa, Consulting Architect
Watch the video here (streaming MP4, 6:35) and view images and project details on the Nordic Heritage Museum page in our projects. Learn more about the museum at nordicmuseum.org.
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