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The American Swedish Historical Museum is the oldest Swedish-American museum in the United States. It is located in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in South Philadelphia, on part of a historic 17th-century land grant originally provided by Queen Christina of Sweden to settlers of New Sweden. [1]
The American Swedish Institute (ASI) is a museum and cultural center in the Phillips West neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.The organization is dedicated to the preservation and study of the historic role Sweden and Swedish Americans have played in US culture and history.
Dr. Amandus Johnson. Amandus Johnson (October 27, 1877 – June 30, 1974) was a Swedish- American historian, author and museum director. He is most associated with his epic two volume history The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware 1638-1664, which was also published in Swedish as Den första svenska kolonien i Amerika (1923).
Courtesy of the American Swedish Institute The museum will follow it up on Feb. 15 with "The Art of Living," the largest presentation of Ann Wolff's work ever put together outside of Sweden.
Swan J. Turnblad (October 7, 1860 – May 17, 1933) was an American newspaper publisher. Turnblad was the manager of the Svenska Amerikanska Posten, a Swedish language newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Later in his life he donated property and money to help create the American Swedish Institute.
By 1926, Amandus Johnson had gathered funds from across the country for what would become the American Swedish Historical Museum, a national museum dedicated to the achievements of Swedish immigrants. The Society determined that the project was beyond its own scope, choosing to focus instead on the time before 1800 and to let the museum ...
John C. Hunterson (1841-1927), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient; William Irvine (1741–1804), American Revolutionary War officer and physician; Amandus Johnson (1877–1974), Swedish-American scholar and founder of the American Swedish Historical Museum; George Ord (1781–1866), ornithologist; Andreas Rudman, pastor ...
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