An Old Seattle Museum Becomes New - And Huge - With Help From Five Other Countries

Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland all helped Washington State gather info and collections for the revamped and massively expanded Nordic Museum, which was originally founded to tell the stories of the fishing communities of Ballard. Things have changed a bit: "Our story in the old museum was from about 1880 to 1920, mainly the immigration story. But here the story goes all the way back in time, starting when the ice recedes in the Nordic country."

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