{"id":41745,"date":"2016-05-11T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=41745"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:58:58","slug":"visitor-finds-surprise-at-swedish-american-museum-on-its-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/visitor-finds-surprise-at-swedish-american-museum-on-its-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor finds surprise at Swedish American Museum on its 40th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?s=hannah+gebresilassie\">Hannah Gebresilassie<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Alan Hagstrom visited the Swedish American Museum on Tuesday and didn\u2019t expect to find what he saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI walk into the room of the display and lo and behold,\u201d says Hagstrom. \u201cThere are my grandparents highlighted on the immigrant wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edward John and Hilda Marie Hagstrom are just two of his four grandparents featured on the Immigrant Wall of Honor, a golden brick-wall that honors immigrant ancestors at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swedishamericanmuseum.org\/\">Swedish American Museum<\/a> in Andersonville.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 166223689 w=474]<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">In this video, Swedish American Museum members speak about the importance of preserving the Swedish heritage. (Hannah Gebresilassie\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The museum also features an exhibit, The Dream of America: Swedish Immigration to Chicago, which highlights the struggles and triumphs of the immigration journey to Chicago. More than 100,000 Swedish Americans lived in Chicago in the early 1900s, making it the second largest Swedish populated city in the world at the time, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augustana.edu\/general-information\/swenson-center\/academic-activities\/swedish-american-immigration-history\">Swenson Swedish Immigration Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Swedes came over back in the 1850s and 1930s, they formed churches and organizations in Andersonville,\u201d says Karin Moen Abercrombie, executive director of ten years at the museum. She added that these people who congregated in the neighborhood are the reason for its location.<\/p>\n<p>The museum started in 1976 and moved to the current building \u2014 originally a Swedish family-owned hardware shop \u2014 in 1987. Leaders in the Swedish community say they are proud of how far it\u2019s come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to continue to keep the roots of the Andersonville neighborhood alive,\u201d says Abercrombie.<\/p>\n<p>They also opened the Brunk Children\u2019s Museum of Immigration in 2001 to create a way for children to interactively learn about immigration and \u201cnot just read about it.\u201d They participate in plays and activities that reenact historical scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about immigration and leaving your home country to start in a new country,\u201d Abercrombie says.<\/p>\n<p>2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the Swedish American Museum and the 15th anniversary of its Brunk Children\u2019s Museum of Immigration. They\u2019re expecting 50,000 people to join them in celebrating Swedish culture and tradition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/starevents.com\/festivals\/andersonville-midsommarfest\/\">Midsommarfest<\/a> on June 11 and 12.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: The Swedish American Museum in Andersonville explores the Swedish Immigration journey to Chicago. 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