Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College’s Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a regular bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and Scandinavian life. The March bokprat features Erlend Loe's novel Naïve. Super. Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually...
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Do you want to deepen connections in the Decorah community and make new friends? Do you want to further something you’re passionate about while learning something new? Do you love history and art? Vesterheim is seeking volunteers, and we’d love to meet you! There are so many ways to be involved. These trainings give anyone...
Do you want to deepen connections in the Decorah community and make new friends? Do you want to further something you’re passionate about while learning something new? Do you love history and art? Vesterheim is seeking volunteers, and we’d love to meet you! There are so many ways to be involved. These trainings give anyone...
Do you want to deepen connections in the Decorah community and make new friends? Do you want to further something you’re passionate about while learning something new? Do you love history and art? Vesterheim is seeking volunteers, and we’d love to meet you! There are so many ways to be involved. These trainings give anyone...
Vesterheim offers free admission the second Saturday of every month. Come and enjoy the museum! Special exhibits open are listed here. There's always something new! Free Second Saturdays are supported in part by a generous gift to the Vesterheim Annual Fund from Kari and Pete Espinosa.
Learning to See the Hidden Stories, Symbolism, and Techniques in the Textile Created in the late 1100s and rediscovered rolled up and stuffed under the floorboards of the Baldishol Church in Norway in the late 1800s, this impressive fragment of a much larger tapestry (or series of tapestries) depicting the "Labors of the Months" remains...
Vesterheim welcomes preschoolers and their caregivers to Barnetimen Children’s Hour. Meet in the lobby of the museum’s Main Building to explore objects and stories in the museum’s collection and make fun art. Meet in the lobby of the Museum Building to look for colorful flowers blooming in the patterns and decorations on objects in the...
Do you want to deepen connections in the Decorah community and make new friends? Do you want to further something you’re passionate about while learning something new? Do you love history and art? Vesterheim is seeking volunteers, and we’d love to meet you! There are so many ways to be involved. These trainings give anyone...
Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College’s Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a regular bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and Scandinavian life. The April bokprat features Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa is Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee...
This tour is full. Add your name to a waiting list by contacting Vesterheim Coordinator of Tours to Norway Rolf Svanoe at 563-382-9681 or NorwayTours@vesterheim.org. The second tour on April 25 still has opening - find out more here. To close out the Vesterheim exhibit, Herbjørn Gausta, 1854-1924, join Vesterheim on fascinating historical day trips...