Volunteer Training

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...

Barnetimen Children’s Hour – March

Farm Fun at Vesterheim’s Barnetimen! 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 explore historic photos and discover what farm life was like in Norway...

Bokprat: Naïve. Super. by Erlend Loe

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...

Volunteer Training

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...

Volunteer Training

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...

Volunteer Training

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...

Event Series Free Second Saturday

Free Second Saturday

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.

Decoding the Baldishol Tapestry Webinar with Laura Berlage

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...

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 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...