Canadians and Norwegian-Canadians don't even bother. Visited, but the museum is a bit of a joke. First, it's not a real emigration museum, it's a USA og Norway museum. The museum is just about the Norwegians that emigrated to the United States. There's no information, displays, artefacts, flags, content, books, statistics, maps, programmes at all about the 100,000 Norwegians that emigrated to Canada from Norway directly or Norwegians that emigrated to Canada from the United States, or even the other 100,000 that emigrated to 30+ other countries around the world. You can see its just about the Norwegian obsession with their history in the United States. Very weird. As a Canadian of Norwegian ancestry, there's nothing of interest, as its completely not about the Norwegian-Canadian experience and obviously the museum doesn't really have any interest to tell Norwegian emigration history outside of the USA. There's not even any information about how 500,000 Norwegians travelling to the United States that arrived in Canada and were helped in Canada to make their way to the United States by Canadian...
Read moreNot a real museum. The museum claims to be a museum about Norwegian emigrants, but it's really just a Norwegian-USA lovefest museum about the Norwegians that went to the USA. There's no information, content, buildings, or displays about any of Norwegians that emigrated to other countries like Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, the U.K., Sweden, etc. After almost 70 years in existence all it's efforts and monies have been used to tell the Norwegian emigrant story to the USA, but omits the history of 200,000 Norwegians that chose 35+ other countries, and in some cases better countries to emigrate to. It doesn't even dsplay the accurate emigrant information about Norwegians that emigrated to the USA. If you're Canadian visiting don't even bother. There's nothing there to tell the story about Norwegian-Canadians. Even their website is...
Read moreIt's not a real emigrants museum. It's all about Norwegian immigration to the United States. Of all the Norwegians that left the Swedish-Norwegian kingdom about 65 per cent went to the U.S.A., the other 35 per cent went to 30+ countries. This museum is all about the Norwegians that went to the U.S.A., nothing about the Norwegians that immigrated to Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. Not worth visiting unless you want to learn about Norwegians that emigrated to the U.S.A. Have contacted the museum several times and not...
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