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 aim to lead with our hearts to promote inclusiveness, artistic creativity, and a greater understanding of our shared humanity. – Wendy Savage and Alison Aune Ojibwe,...
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. Explore the many beautiful and useful spoons in Vesterheim’s collection to learn how they were made and used and to look more closely...
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 you’re passionate about while learning something new? Do you love history and art? There are so many ways to be involved. This training focuses on...
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 is closed for the winter. The Valley Grove Preservation Society commissioned Vesterheim Gold Medalist Robbie LaFleur of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to design and weave the tapestries...
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...
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.
Everyone is invited to join Sons of Norway Venekretsen Lodge and former Vesterheim Trustee Dale Goodman for this public in-person meeting and presentation. For more information contact Marie Heskowitz at 763-572-1661 or 763-742-0708 or Sandy Eyler at 920-268-9000. In the period beginning in 1825 and for about 100 years following, nearly 40% of the population of...
Celebrate Syttende Mai, Norwegian Constitution Day, at Vesterheim with a concert by Vidar Skrede! Vidar Skrede is a freelance Nordic folk musician, playing fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, and guitar. He is from Norway and currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has a background in the traditional music of Rogaland, his home area in the south west...
Celebrate Syttende Mai with Vesterheim!
[vc_custom_heading text="Hand Me Down the Fiddle Norwegian Fiddlers, Fiddles, and Fiddle Tunes in the Upper Midwest Exhibit Closes" font_container="tag:h1|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" el_class="huge-heading green"]Hand Me Down the Fiddle: Norwegian Fiddlers, Fiddles and Fiddle Tunes in the Upper Midwest Exhibit Closes on May 18, 2025. Who were Ole Bull, Ole Hendricks, Johan Arndt Mostad, Thea Arndt Clark, Bill...
