Out of the 900 000 Norwegians who emigrated from Norway, most went to the United States, and many settled on farms in the Midwest. This little house was the home of a family of eight, parents, grandmother and five children!
This had both the cowshed, the hay loft, the pigsty and the chicken coop, also somewhere in the Midwest.
Americans of Norwegian descent decide to donate these old buildings on their farms to this museum in Norway in memory of their forefathers.
This airy little building was the storage for corn, a vegetable the new immigrants from Norway did not know from their home country.
This Protestant church was built by eight Norwegian families in the Midwest and used for many years. Then, after it was no longer in use, it was dismantled and sent to Norway. Here it is used both for religious services and for concerts.
Last Tuesday the museum received another container from the States with a dismantled oneroom school house with benches, blackboard and all the rest. Now they need money to rebuild it.
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