2023 Junior Guides

Volunteer to be a Junior Guide during the 2023 season! Students who have graduated from 6th grade through college volunteer are assistants and historical characters at the many events at Gammelgården Museum of Scandia during the spring and…

Seeking Tour Guides for the 2023 Season

Join Our Team! We're Seeking Tour Guides for our 2023 Season Our tour guides are trained and scheduled to lead groups, school children, or individuals through our historic buildings. It's fun and easy! We have scripts and you shadow experienced…

Gammelgården’s Wish List

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Visit Gammelgården's Wish List to see what items are needed by the museum.   We are looking for items for children's programming, photographing artifacts, Girls & Dolls tea parties, launching the Story Corps program, improving…

Do You Enjoy Creating Short Videos?

Gammelgården is looking for people (youth and adults) who enjoy creating short videos. We would like to highlight our classes, workshops, and festivals with videos that we can post on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and our website. Check…

Internship Opportunity

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If you are a high school senior or college student (or know of one) looking to explore the field of non-profit management or work in a history museum setting, Gammelgården’s internship program may be worth exploring. Gammelgården selects…

Volunteer at Gammelgården

Do You Have a Free Hour or More Each Month? Volunteer at Gammelgården!  From assisting with crafts to doing woodworking projects to helping at major festivals, we are very grateful for any amount of time you can donate. See the many…

Learn More About Gammelgården’s Artifacts

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For the first time ever, Gammelgården has a searchable database of items in its collection on the museum's website! This project started in mid-November 2022 with the photography of some of the museum's artifacts and posts about them on Facebook…

Be a Demonstrator or Participant in the Artists & Crafters Fair

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Gammelgården Museum of Scandia is seeking individuals who would like to be demonstrators, sell their products, and/or have an information table for any or all three of Gammelgården’s major events this summer: –        Opening…

Message from the Board President – from the March 2023 Kul News

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The Immigrant Experience - Change and Tradition I recently re-read my Grandmother Violet Iversons’ memoirs. She was a second-generation Swedish immigrant born in 1900 in Minneapolis. Hers was an urban experience. Unfortunately, her parents…

Storytime with Lynne

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With another snowfall overnight, the book that Gammelgården's Director, Lynne Moratzka, picked out to read on March 1st - The Mitten - was a perfect story for the day. In addition to the book, children did an activity and learned about…