Shortly after Minot’s Scandinavian Heritage Association was formed in 1988, it acquired a small log house, built around 1770 in the Vatn_s area of Sigdal, Norway; just west of Oslo. Acquired by the park as an example of the typical home Norwegian immigrants left behind, the Sigdal House was shipped to Minot and dedicated on this day, October 15, 1991.

North Dakotans are not the only ones interested in the lives of Norwegian migrants. In 1950 the Norseman's Federation and the Norwegian Folk Museum of Oslo, Norway decided to build an open-air museum that could illustrate life led by Norwegian emigrants to the American Midwest. They selected a small log cabin from Norman, ND. Built in 1873 by the Borderud family, it had variously been used as a dwelling, church and school. The Norman Cabin was dedicated in June 1955 and today stands at the entrance to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum in Ottestad, Norway.

Written by Christina Campbell

Sources:
http://scandinavianheritage.org/Default.htm
http://www.museumsnett.no/emigrantmuseum/index_en.html

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