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The Swedish American Museum has increased hours for the 2011 holiday season! To view the entire holiday hours and see when they start, please click here.
We also have a full schedule of holiday events that are already under way for the 2011 holiday season! To view all the holiday events at the Museum, Click Here.
The Swedish American Museum will participate in the Chicago Lucia Celebrations held on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. Starting at 11:30 a.m. at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago, there will be Lucia candidates representing Swedish-American organizations throughout the Chicago area, and the Chicago 2011 Lucia Queen will be chosen. This is organized by the St. Lucia Committee Chair, Irene Strom-Spejcher, from the Central Swedish Committee.
Next, Andersonville’s St. Lucia Festival of Lights celebration includes a procession starting at 4:45 p.m. from the Swedish American Museum and returns for a program at 5 p.m. We will follow the Chicago 2011 Lucia Queen up and down Clark Street singing traditional songs. Finally at 7 p.m., the Lucia celebrations conclude at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster Ave. in Chicago,with holiday songs, readings, and a Lucia procession.
This year we have a new holiday event –Children’s Christmas Cooking! We invite children to learn how to make pepparkakor (Swedish Ginger cookie) and other Swedish Christmas candy and treats at this event on Tuesday, Dec. 20 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. These can make great gifts or the perfect dessert after your holiday meal! To learn more about this and other Children’s Museum events, please click here.
A display of Swedish Mora Clock wallhangings can be found on the second floor hallway of the Museum this month. These handmade and handpainted 100 percent cotton canvas Mora Clocks are designed by JS ELDER (artists Judy Seymour and Sallee Dawson) and are also available for purchase.
Do you see your favorite event on our front page? If not, scroll through our sidebar menu (the top-right of the page) or click here to visit our complete online calendar of programs and events! Stay in touch with us too on Facebook, Twitter, or our E-blast mailing list–all of which you can sign up for on the lower right of the page!
We at the Museum are lucky to have so many wonderful volunteers – you see
them at the Visitor Services desk, the Museum Store, in the Children’s Museum and helping with special events. Sometimes though, our volunteers are less visible. We have many volunteers to assist with the Museum’s Collections – they help with cataloguing, organizing, researching and inventorying our over 13,000 historic artifacts. These behind-the-scenes volunteers are incredibly important, just like their more visible counterparts in the public areas of the Museum.
Here is a little peek at one project currently in progress. Kristin Walberg, an Archival Studies student and Museum volunteer, is working on inventorying and rehousing our collection of historic magazines:
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We now have a full inventory of these magazines and have started relocating them into archival quality boxes to help preserve them for future researchers and for exhibits at the Museum.
The Swedish American Museum has increased hours for the 2011 holiday season! To view the entire holiday hours and see when they start, please click here.
We also have a full schedule of holiday events that are already under way for the 2011 holiday season! To view all the holiday events at the Museum, Click Here.
The Swedish American Museum is once again part of the Chase Community Giving program! By voting for the Museum on the Chase Community Giving Facebook page, you can help the Museum win up to $250,000!
This year, Julmarknad will be held on
Saturday, Dec. 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To view the list of vendors click here and click here for a list of Wikstrom’s food items available at Julmarknad. The current list of performers click here. Please look back for updates.
Julmarknad is the Museum’s annual Christmas Bazaar, where traditional Scandinavian and modern handicrafts will be available for purchase. Not only can you shop for your favorite Swedish and non-Swedish holiday gifts and more in the Museum main floor gallery, but you can visit the Children’s Museum for crafts, games, and a special visit from Santa! It’s entertainment for the whole family and includes a kaffestuga, Lucia processions, and folk dancers. $2 suggested admissions donation.
If you’d like to see a preview of what will be available at Julmarknad, come visit the Museum Store during Late Night Andersonville on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.!
The Museum’s current exhibition In the Footsteps of Our Mothers…closes Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Come see these wonderful textiles by Kerstin Rosengren soon, if you have not already!
In this display by Kerstin Rosengren, she explores the art and craft of traditional Swedish textiles, particularly those handed down through generations of women. To learn more about this exhibit, please click here.
Do you see your favorite event on our front page? If not, scroll through our sidebar menu (the top-right of the page) or click here to visit our complete online calendar of programs and events! Stay in touch with us too on Facebook, Twitter, or our E-blast mailing list–all of which you can sign up for on the lower right of the page!
The Swedish American Museum has increased hours for the 2011 holiday season, beginning with extended Museum Store hours on November 4, 2011. To view the entire holiday hours, please click here.
The Kerstin Andersson Museum Store invites you to enjoy an evening of Christmas shopping, glögg, and pepparkakor on Friday, Nov. 4! Specially priced items will available and members receive 20 percent discount on all items. Come preview our Christmas collection of wonderful gifts –and many new items–at the Museum Store!
Want to know more about our Holiday 2011 events? Click Here!
Swedish Tenor Mats Carlsson will perform selections of Jussi Bjorling’s music as part of the “Made in Sweden” tour on Friday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. in Anderson Chapel, at North Park University in Chicago. ”Made in Sweden” centers on celebrating the centennial of Jussi Bjorling’s birth and presents some of the greatest performers of the classical Swedish singing tradition, including Birgit Nilsson and others along with Jussi.
For more information about this concert or to purchase tickets, please click here to visit our online calendar.
Do you see your favorite event on our front page? If not, scroll through our sidebar menu (the top-right of the page) or click here to visit our complete online calendar of programs and events! Stay in touch with us too on Facebook, Twitter, or our E-blast mailing list–all of which you can sign up for on the lower right of the page!
