Northwest Tattoo Museum hopes to stay afloat through hardships

Northwest Tattoo Museum hopes to stay afloat through hardships

A group of young men gathered to watch as one sat on the chair, leg outstretched, a grimace competing with a grin as a buzzing tattoo gun needled ink into his skin. "It's hurting," Nathan Korth of Bonney Lake, Wash. admitted Friday afternoon as Northwest Tattoo Museum artist Douglas Swindle went about his work designing a cherry blossom tree above the ankle on the inside of Korth's leg. “It’s from this movie I like, ‘Kung Fu Panda,’" Korth said, slightly flinching. “We’re currently on a road trip and this is on the way back home, so we’re all getting tattoos. The Northwest Tattoo Museum is a destination for mementos and memories for people near and far as it offers on-site ink amid images and artifacts that tell the stories of how electric tattooing came to be what it is today.