National Sauna Week

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT: Check out FFN on Instagram for a chance to win TWO Marimekko robes plus sauna bathing goodies! For details: Finlandia Foundation Instagram

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT Six experts weigh in on the differences, merits and controversies surrounding traditional, wood-heated Finnish saunas and other, recently introduced methods. You could win a copy […]

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT: Author Michael Nordskog and photographer Aaron W. Hautala talk about creating this tribute to the history, culture and practice of sauna in the Upper Midwest. […]

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT: Dr. Hans Hägglund discusses his findings about the effect of sauna on health. You could win a copy of Carita Harju's book Sauna:The Finnish Way […]

In celebration of National Sauna Week, Lake Superior Chapter President Ron Hill will give a presentation about the sauna as part of the museum's annual meeting program. Refreshments will be […]

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT: Finnish comedians Ismo Leikola and Miska Kajunas compare saunas typically found in American gyms with the traditional saunas of Finland. At the FFN YouTube channel […]

FFN NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK EVENT: Learn from Press Counselor Pasi Rajala how the sauna is an unusual but effective setting for diplomatic relations at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, […]

National Sauna Week festivities include: Finnish Pannukakku Breakfast (8-10 a.m.), Wife Carrying Contest (10:30 a.m.); visit the former sauna, now preserved as a museum (11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.); X-C ski, snowshoe […]

Enjoy a traditional, wood fired sauna during this week-long recognition of the Finnish bathing method. The sauna has a private dressing room, hot room large enough for three, buckets of […]