Events » Norsk Museum to open summer season
The Norsk Museum, a Norwegian cultural center in Sheridan, Ill., will open Saturday, June 1, with exhibits and a Taste of Norway breakfast featuring ethnic dishes.
Norsk Museum to open summer season
June 1st, 2019
The Norsk Museum, at 3656 E. 2631st in Sheridan, IL
Dave Johnson, Norsk Museum board president, at (815) 343-5070 or email dave.norskmuseum@gmail
Details:
The Norsk Museum, a Norwegian cultural center in Sheridan, will open Saturday, June 1, with exhibits and a Taste of Norway breakfast featuring ethnic dishes.
The public is invited. The breakfast will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Norway Community Building, 3676 E. 2603rd Rd. in Sheridan. On the menu are home-cooked Norwegian dishes including fried kumla, waffles, guma, scrambled eggs with chives, fried potatoes, fresh fruit and desserts.
Adult tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door and $5 in advance or $7 at the door for children. The breakfast is a fundraiser for museum operations. For advance tickets, call Dave Johnson, Norsk Museum board president, at (815) 343-5070 or email dave.norskmuseum@gmail.com.
The museum, at 3656 E. 2631st in Sheridan, is a repository of Norwegian artifacts. It will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. June 1-2.
Johnson said the museum will feature the Skagerrak, a one-third scale Viking war ship replica, handbuilt by John Maack at Waukegan harbor.
The museum, dedicated to Norwegian art, worship and industry, is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings. It occupies the former Hauge Lutheran Church built in 1850.
After June 2, museum hours will be 1 to 5 p.m. weekends through September. Group visits are available year around by appointment. Call (815) 343-5070.
About the museum
The museum occupies a former church led by Elling Eielsen (Hauge Synod), a Norwegian immigrant who began Lutheran worship services in North America in 1839.
Not only is the building the oldest Norwegian Lutheran Church in North America, it was built in the oldest permanent Norwegian settlement in North America, founded in 1825 by pioneer Cleng Peerson and the Sloopers. Cleng Peerson is known as the father of Norwegian Immigration. The Sloopers were Norwegian Quakers and Quaker sympathizers, who came to America in 1825. They sailed on the ship Restauration with 46 passengers and a crew of 6.
The church/museum is located in Norway, Illinois on highway 71, and 9 miles northeast of Ottawa, Illinois. Sons of Norway Cleng Peerson Lodge’s interest in this historic building is a natural outcome of working with the lodge’s strategic plan to raise awareness of Sons of Norway and Cleng Peerson Lodge throughout the Chicagoland area.
The public is invited. The breakfast will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Norway Community Building, 3676 E. 2603rd Rd. in Sheridan. On the menu are home-cooked Norwegian dishes including fried kumla, waffles, guma, scrambled eggs with chives, fried potatoes, fresh fruit and desserts.
Adult tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door and $5 in advance or $7 at the door for children. The breakfast is a fundraiser for museum operations. For advance tickets, call Dave Johnson, Norsk Museum board president, at (815) 343-5070 or email dave.norskmuseum@gmail.com.
The museum, at 3656 E. 2631st in Sheridan, is a repository of Norwegian artifacts. It will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. June 1-2.
Johnson said the museum will feature the Skagerrak, a one-third scale Viking war ship replica, handbuilt by John Maack at Waukegan harbor.
The museum, dedicated to Norwegian art, worship and industry, is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings. It occupies the former Hauge Lutheran Church built in 1850.
After June 2, museum hours will be 1 to 5 p.m. weekends through September. Group visits are available year around by appointment. Call (815) 343-5070.
About the museum
The museum occupies a former church led by Elling Eielsen (Hauge Synod), a Norwegian immigrant who began Lutheran worship services in North America in 1839.
Not only is the building the oldest Norwegian Lutheran Church in North America, it was built in the oldest permanent Norwegian settlement in North America, founded in 1825 by pioneer Cleng Peerson and the Sloopers. Cleng Peerson is known as the father of Norwegian Immigration. The Sloopers were Norwegian Quakers and Quaker sympathizers, who came to America in 1825. They sailed on the ship Restauration with 46 passengers and a crew of 6.
The church/museum is located in Norway, Illinois on highway 71, and 9 miles northeast of Ottawa, Illinois. Sons of Norway Cleng Peerson Lodge’s interest in this historic building is a natural outcome of working with the lodge’s strategic plan to raise awareness of Sons of Norway and Cleng Peerson Lodge throughout the Chicagoland area.
