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unusual facts about Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum


Symra

Symra was printed by Decorah-posten's trykkeri in the Lutheran Publishing House, now a primary building of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.


Clive Forster Cooper

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1936 and knighted in 1946 He was also a foreign member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Museum.

Murphy Wall

Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Robert Cushman Murphy, American ornithologist who made observations and collections in the Bay of Isles in 1912-13 for the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Pauline Fjelde

Her works have been on display at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts and are in a permanent collection at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.

Peter de Francia

He worked from 1949 to 1950 at the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission in Ottawa, and subsequently in the Architects' Department, American Museum, New York (1950–51).

Susan Powers

Her paintings are in many permanent collections, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the American Museum in Bath, England.


see also

Per Ivarson Undi

Naeseth, Gerhard B. Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850. 2 vols. (Madison, WI: Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, 1997)