Find out what’s happening in Heritage Park!
Join Vesterheim to celebrate the exciting work happening at Heritage Park with live stream updates, generally on Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. on Facebook. During the session, Vesterheim staff share historical information and informative renovation updates.
If you don’t have Facebook, Vesterheim now streams our Facebook feed on our website here! Tune in at the time indicated for the live stream. The videos will also be posted later on our YouTube channel.
The Heritage Park project will transform Vesterheim’s campus into an educational, interpretive, and public outdoor space in downtown Decorah. When completed, the museum’s unique collection of 12 historical buildings will be displayed within an accessible, landscaped park that will include gentle glades and a community amphitheater.
The park was designed by Damon Farber, the award-winning landscape architectural firm from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in partnership with Snøhetta, the renowned international architecture and landscape architecture firm with offices in New York City and Oslo. Heritage Park is part of an overall Master Site Plan created for Vesterheim by Snøhetta. The primary contractor for the project is 2nd Nature Landscaping, Bloomington, Minnesota, and other contractors include Skyline Construction, Inc., Wicks Construction, Perry Novak Electric, and Stevenson Tree Care, all of Decorah.
Vesterheim gives a heartfelt THANK YOU to our exceptional partners: Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, and the Paul D. Pratt & Marguerite Olson Pratt Fund of InFaith Community Foundation, Kate Nelson Rattenborg, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s Water Quality Initiative (WQI) Urban Conservation Project, and the Winneshiek County Community Foundation for their support of this transformative project.
This live stream is supported by Siles & Smokestacks National Heritage Area.
