• Photo courtesy of Bruce Damonte.

National Nordic Heritage Museum

Seattle, WA

Project Categories

Seattle
All-Electric
Civic + cultural

Business Type

Museum

Size

53,000 square feet

This new museum in the heart of Seattle's Ballard neighborhood serves as a cross-cultural bridge for people from Nordic countries and the United States. The airy exhibitions rooms feature contributions of Nordic immigrants and their descendants in the development of the Pacific Northwest.

Architect

Mithun

Owner

Nordic Museum

Services

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Building performance analysis

Sustainability

Certifications

  • LEED Gold

Special features

  • The building features interactive exhibitions, permanent galleries, a café, state-of-the-art auditorium, workshop studios and storage spaces.
  • The air system blends in seamlessly with the museum’s architecture, and spaces are carefully climate-controlled for appropriate storage.
  • Air source heat recovery chillers move heat from spaces in cooling to those that need heat by simultaneously producing heating and chilled water.