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During the entire year of 2025, you are invited to enjoy a large and varied selection of bicentennial experiences. All across Norway, large and small institutions, organizations and associations are well underway with planning exciting events, exhibitions, seminars, publications and much more.
There is a lot to look forward to!

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Something looks interesting! Anno Norsk utvandrermuseum

In 2025, you will find a full calendar of events related to the migration bicentennial on this page. Until then, we present a number of inspiring examples of ongoing projects and preparations.

To find out more about activities in the US, go to the American Crossings 200 calendar page

The updated version of the calendar will first be available on our Norwegian website.

Unknown Landscape – New Perspectives on Emigration History

In this exhibition, the Norwegian Emigrant Museum will present new perspectives on Norwegian emigration history. Recent research has disproved many an old myth. Now, even the more unpleasant aspects of history are being disclosed and can come to light. Many similarities exist between Norwegians' historical emigration and the immigration we see in Norway today. The museum's new, permanent exhibition will convey both similarities and differences.

Restauration sails to New York

Two hundred years after Restauration left Stavanger, a true copy of the sloop will sail the original route across the Atlantic. Departure from Stavanger July 4th and arrival in New York October 9th. This voyage will be combined with various cultural events.

The mystery of the missing emigrants

Would you like to help solve the Norwegian Emigrants Museum´s mysterious disapperance case?

America letters

The archives of the Norwegian Emigrant Museum hold around 10,000 letters from America and elsewhere. The genealogy organization Slekt og Data is helping the museum transcribe part of these handwritten letters, in order to make their content digitally available.

Norwegian shipping heritage

The Norway Heritage website is an important source of knowledge about ships and shipping across the Atlantic but has until recently been run by one single individual. The genealogy organization Slekt og Data has undertaken to continue and renew this website.

Migration research at Oslo University

Experiencing American Democracy: Nordic Encounters in Transatlantic Perspective.

Migration research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Religious and Secular Worldmaking: Narrative Cultures of Utopian Emigration and the Formation of Modern Regimes of Attention.