[vc_custom_heading text="September 28, 2025 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m." use_theme_fonts="yes" el_class="medium-heading bold"]Calling bakers young and old! Join cookbook author Daytona Danielsen for a fun family bake-along inspired by fairy tales. With magical recipes that are sure to delight bakers of all ages, this will be a class that is fun for the whole family. Daytona's cookbook Disney Frozen:...
[vc_custom_heading text="August 24, 2025 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m." use_theme_fonts="yes" el_class="medium-heading bold"]Join folk artist and instructor Becky Lusk on a dive into the work and life of Lars Kinsarvik through her journey to museums in Oslo, Utne, Voss, Ålesund, and Asker and a church in Eid that Lars decorated. Through this journey, learn the role Lars played...
Can you imagine a time and place without quilts? It may be hard to believe, but few Norwegians in the nineteenth century had ever seen quilts. Immigrants to the United States needed quilts for warmth and to help their homes look more American. Quilts from Vesterheim’s Textile Collection tell the story of the immigrant experience...
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! This program is supported in part by a generous gift to the Vesterheim Annual Fund from Bill and Kathi Wild.
Each year, the auction includes one-of-a-kind folk-art by artists working in the Norwegian tradition, plus an incredible 8-day European River Cruise for two in 2026 from Viking. Auction pieces for 2025 will be posted here in the fall. You can get your Bidding for Good account ready any time! Many of the pieces in the...
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! This program is supported in part by a generous gift to the Vesterheim Annual Fund from Bill and Kathi Wild.
Come to Decorah for this festival event for the whole family!
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! This program is supported in part by a generous gift to the Vesterheim Annual Fund from Bill and Kathi Wild.
Don't miss your last chance to see this special themed folk art show that celebrates the past, the present, and the future of Norwegian folk art in the United States and abroad. Contemporary artists submitted pieces to honor folk art masters of the past; draw inspiration from contemporary culture bearers; explore what folk art might...
Sisters Ida and Mina Jensen were born in Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway. In 1870 they immigrated with their family to Illinois. Later, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ida and husband Niels Frederik Hansen started a magazine called Fra Alle Lande (From All Countries). Ida wrote a column for homemakers. After the magazine folded in 1888, Ida and her...
