Big Movie Night!

It's time for another movie night at the Bakke Coffee Museum! Warning, this film might make you hungry!

On Friday, August 29, the Bakke Coffee Museum is proud to present the classic Big Night (1996). The movie follows the lives of two brothers, immigrants from Italy, struggling to run an Italian restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub play the brothers, and the movie also features Isabella Rossellini and Minnie Driver. And the food...! Extravagant Italian food is also front and center for much of the film. If you haven't heard of timpano yet, you will be obsessed by the end of the film!

Preparing to cut into the timpano

This is an outdoor movie, the event will be held in the museum parking lot. The presentation will start at dusk, approximately 8pm. The museum will be open to visitors starting at 6pm. This event is free! But please bring your own chair and clothing suitable for the cooler evening time. Space is limited, RSVP required through brown paper tickets:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6695453

Hope to see you there!

Summer Saturdays are coming!

Did you hear?

The Bakke Museum is finally going to be open on weekends!

It's true! We are so happy to announce that starting July 12th the Bakke Coffee Museum will be open for walk-in tours the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month, from 12 pm to 4 pm.

Now you can make a visit to the Bakke Coffee Museum part of a perfect summer Saturday in Ballard. Hit up Ballard Avenue for a tasty brunch, do a little shopping, visit the coffee museum, swing by the locks, and head to the beach! Or stop in the museum before dinner in one of Ballard's many fine restaurants. Or just come straight to the Coffee Museum!

Bonus! The first open weekend, July 12th, is the same weekend as Ballard Seafood Fest, so come out for a whole weekend of good food, music, and coffee! Hope to see you soon!

It's time for a double feature!

Come out for an outdoor movie screening at the Bakke Coffee Museum! We are proud to be presenting a double feature of two very special films, one celebrating Seattle's unique history as an iconic coffee city, and one documenting three women's brave sail across the Atlantic. Although different, both films are about things that make Seattle the city we love — coffee and the maritime world.

You've probably never heard of this short film, "The Addict", created in 1992 by Matt Thomas Draper. Although brief, the movie is packed with great footage of the Seattle scene in the 1990s. If you have lived in Seattle a long time, you might recognize landmarks and coffee stands that are now long gone. And some that are still here! Shot in moody black and white, this film packs a lot of coffee drama into less than 15 minutes. Although little known, it is an important document of Seattle's coffee history. And it has a great original jazz score!

Our feature presentation is a screening of the documentary film "Women and the Wind", now on its world premiere tour. The film follows the journey of three young women as they cross the North Atlantic on a fifty-year-old catamaran. At the heart of the film is the call of the ocean — calling out to the longing for adventure and wildness that is inside of each of us, waiting to be awakened. The movie is about the search for self, and for nature, putting aside fear and practicality to find a deeper connection with both of these things. It is also about the ever-increasing amounts of plastic in the ocean, which is a constantly growing threat to all living things. Watch the official trailer here.

The event is free! But please RSVP through our events page / brown paper tickets since space is limited.

At the event we will be taking donations and raising money for SeaStr PNW, specifically for their scholarship program. SeaStr's mission is to make the maritime world more accessible to people who have historically been excluded, due to sex, color, race and economic status. This means getting people on boats and in the water, both for fun and for work, as well as helping people get the expensive equipment required for so many ocean activities. Through this work more people can connect and engage with nature, and through new experiences gain more confidence to believe in themselves and lift up others. SeaStr's scholarships are helping more people make the jump into maritime jobs and education, that would otherwise be out of reach. Learn more about SeaStr's mission here!

The museum will be open to the public before the screening, starting at 7pm. Learn more on our events page. The screening will start at dusk. We hope you will be able to join us for our first movie night!