Tours to the United States

In collaboration with the Stavanger University College, Dept. for Humanities, The Emigration Center arranges study tours to the United States. Here is a brief description of the tours this year and our 2000 tour.

New York, March 2001
This trip to New York is an offer to students attending the European Migration History Study. We leave Stavanger Airport, Sola early on March 22. and return from Newark on March 27. With focus on New York as a city of immigrants, we visit the immigration museum at Ellis Island, The Statue of Liberty with copper plates from the Vigsnes mines at Karmøy, the Tenement Museum, the Norwegian Seamen´s Church, and Brooklyn. Close to 63,000 Norwegians lived in New York in 1930, more than 29,000 of them in Brooklyn. We also tour the United Nations building. The price of NOK 7.500 includes airfare, taxes and hotel. No meals.

Chicago - Minneapolis, October 2001
We are planning a tour to the Midwestern states where most of the Norwegian pioneers settled. Flying in to Chicago, once the third largest "Norwegian city" in the world, and returning via Minneapolis, the Norwegian - American capital. On this tour we stop at places like Stavanger and Norway.

New York and Midwest, March 2000
15 persons participated on this 10 days study tour to the United States in early spring 2000. After three days in New York, we headed north-east to Minneapolis where we visited St. Olaf College, Northfield, Vesterheim Museum at Decorah, Iowa and famous places in the Twin Cities. Several of the participants attended the successful conference "Vandringer": Norwegian - Americans in the American Mosaic, organized by the Norwegian American Historical Society in conjunction with the 175th Anniversary of Norwegian Immigration to the United States.