In Trunks, Hands, and Hearts

Join the Daughters of Norway Eva Nansen Lodge and Vesterheim Collection Manager Jennifer Kovarik to explore the immigrant experience through stories associated with artifacts in Vesterheim’s collection. Between 1825 and...

Exploring Viksdal Style Rosemaling

Viksdalmaling is not fanciful with Telemark scrolls and imaginative flowers but instead with twisted tongues, elongated teardrops, moons and circles, and plenty of crosses. Viksdalmaling is rich in symbolism and history, yet...

The Norwegian Mayflower: The Voyage of the Restauration

Join Sons of Norway Restauration Lodge and former Vesterheim Trustee Dale Goodman! The meeting will be held in-person at Ascension Lutheran Church, 2210 Grand Avenue in Marion, Iowa. Dale will...

Vesterheim From Home: Member Event 2023

Cozy up with a cup of cocoa or tea and get ready for the holiday season with Vesterheim. Vesterheim members will enjoy: • An exciting insider update from Vesterheim President Chris Johnson,...

Making Folk Costumes

Join Barbro Tronhuus Storlien for a lecture on Norwegian folk costumes. Norway has a variety of more than 450 different folk costumes, and many of these have intricate embroideries. Many of...

Barnetimen Children’s Hour – November

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...

FamilieTid: Tomte and Nisse Christmas Stories

Get cozy this Christmas with stories about nisse and tomte, the mythological creatures from Norwegian and Swedish folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. These hidden folk bring good...