Martin Whatson’s ‘Paint Love’ is a sort of valentine from across the Atlantic. COURTESY OF NORDIC MUSEUM
“Lots of boats, lots of sagas, more boats,” program manager Jon-athan Sajda says as we walk through the second floor of the new Nordic Museum.
This is the part of the museum that traces the Nordic cultures of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, the autonomous regions of Greenland, Aland, and the Faroe Islands, and the indigenous peoples of Norway, Sweden, and Finland (the Sami). With more than 77,000 items in the collection, most of what you’ll see here is what you’d expect from the world’s only pan-Nordic museum: wall texts, educational videos, and ephemera.