Collections Connection: Fiber Tools with Donna Kallner In this recording, join Wisconsin fiber-arts-tool geek Donna Kallner in a conversation about some of Vesterheim’s collection tools for nålbinding, knitting, and netting,…
Corporate and Organization Partnerships
…AfricaSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSouth SudanSpainSri LankaSudanSurinameSvalbard and Jan MayenSwedenSwitzerlandSyria Arab RepublicTaiwanTajikistanTanzania, the United Republic ofThailandTimor-LesteTogoTokelauTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluTürkiyeUS Minor Outlying IslandsUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUruguayUzbekistanVanuatuVenezuelaViet…
Norwegian Timber Framing with Mike Loeffler
…with the guidance of traditional carpenters. Mike has focused on his interest in grindbygg, a type of timber framing prevalent throughout South Western Norway. The construction and flexibility in composition…
New Staff Joins Folk Art School
…College and the University of St. Thomas, and has worked as a teacher educator in courses at Southern Methodist University, the University of Memphis, and the University of St. Thomas….
O. Jay and Pat Tomson: Dedicated to Helping People
…strips, but she couldn’t read the language. She explained, “People shied away from teaching Norwegian to the younger generations.” O. Jay was born in Canton, South Dakota. His parents operated…
Rolf Svanoe New Tours to Norway Coordinator
…to Augustana in Sioux Falls. He then attended Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and served for 36 years as a pastor in Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Minnesota. This is…
New Staff Join Development Team
…Minnesota, as her hometown, is a graduate of Southwest Minnesota State University with a degree in marketing and business administration. Before coming to Vesterheim, Kim worked as an administrative assistant…
Caring for the Collection
…collection of 33,000 artifacts, 11,000 books, and 14,000 archival photographs and documents. An important part of her job is sharing the Vesterheim collection through exhibitions. One of her favorite parts…
Vesterheim Purchases Building
…recently housed the Northeast Iowa Montessori School, which has relocated to a property on South Avenue in Decorah. Preliminary engineering and design work has already been completed, and the final…
Boy Scout Troop Photo in Vesterheim Collection
Boy Scout Troop Photo in Vesterheim Collection By Christine Tuve Burris Like parents everywhere, parents in Canton, South Dakota, in 1911 worried that their teenage sons might get into mischief….