Leading with Our Hearts Exhibit Closes
The Leading with Our Hearts: Nordic, Sami and Ojibwe Designs from Nature Exhibit Ends April 13, 2025. It is our hope that this exhibition encourages your own artistic curiosity. We...
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Barnetimen Children’s Hour – April
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...
Volunteer Training
Vesterheim is seeking volunteers, and we’d love to meet you! Do you want to deepen connections in the Decorah community and make new friends? Do you want to further something...
April Bokprat: Muus vs. Muus by Kari Lie Dorer
Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and Scandinavian life. Join us online in...
The Extraordinary Aprons of Evelina Grimes
Aprons are usually utilitarian accessories, but a large number of aprons, now at Vesterheim, were made by one woman for the reasons of self expression and public entertainment. Evelina Oppegard...
FamilieTid: Springtime Music from Scandinavia
[vc_custom_heading text="April 26, 2025 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m." use_theme_fonts="yes" el_class="medium-heading bold"]Gather the family together and join celebrated Finnish musicians Soili Perkiö and Maija Karhinen for an hour of Scandinavian music. Soili...
The Valley Grove Tapestries Exhibit Closes
Four tapestries, woven in traditional Norwegian billedvev or “picture weaving,” for the historic Valley Grove Stone Church in rural Nerstrand, Minnesota, will be on exhibit in the Vesterheim Commons while the church...
Vesterheim at Around the World Embassy Tour in DC
The Norwegian Embassy is participating in this cultural family event in Washington, D.C. During the event, visitors can travel the world as they go from embassy to embassy and experience...
The Norwegian Mayflower: The Voyage of the Restauration
Join Nordic Lodge 1-502 in Lake Mills, IA for their Syttende Mai banquet, as they host Dale Goodman for this engaging presentation about the voyage of the Restauration. In the...
Pioneering Pages: Forming the New American Woman Exhibit Opens
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...