Swedish American Museum

06/02/2026

Welcome summer and celebrate the changing seasons with a faux flower crown! Buy your unique crown from the Swedish American Museum to wear during Midsommarfest or during any summer events.

Pre-order a crown today at https://swedishamericanmuseum.org/product/33616. Pick up for crowns will take place the week leading up to Midsommarfest, get special access to pick your favorite crown before the weekend.

06/01/2026

Andersonville's annual Midsommarfest is Friday, June 12, to Sunday, June 14! Join us in celebrating this time honored tradition by volunteering with us! Scan the QR code or visit www.signup.com/go/ajaiomU to experience Midsommarfest in a whole new way.

06/01/2026

Visit the Brunk Children’s Museum of Immigration, a fully interactive exhibit that invites children and visitors of all ages to explore the 19th century immigration journey from Sweden to the United States.

Monday Closed
Tuesday - Thursday 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Please note that the interactive component of our Children’s Museum is closed to the public Tuesday-Thursday mornings to accommodate school tours. If we do not have a school tour scheduled that day, visitors are welcome to visit our Children’s Museum as a non-interactive exhibit.

The Children's Museum will have special hours Tuesday, March 24, to Thursday, March 26. Visit us from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. during Chicago Public School's Spring Break!

05/31/2026

Visit the Museum to see "My Future Heritage" featuring artwork by Sofia Hagström Møller open until Friday, Aug. 7. There will be a Gallery Walk in July.

In My Future Heritage, textile artist Sofia Hagström Møller explores weaving as a carrier of memory, tradition, and transformation. Rooted in Scandinavian textile heritage and shaped by transatlantic exchange, the exhibition brings together earlier works and a new series created specifically for this presentation.

Working within long-standing traditions of Scandinavian weaving, Hagström Møller draws on personal lineage and historical research, reinterpreting patterns inherited from her grandmother through contemporary tools and digital processes. Her work bridges generations, geographies, and modes of making, highlighting weaving as both a cultural archive and a living practice.

Presented at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago, My Future Heritage reflects the shared roots of Scandinavian and American textile traditions and invites viewers to consider how cultural heritage is continually shaped—carried forward through care, adaptation, and imagination.

My Future Heritage — shared traditions, woven toward hope. This project was developed with generous support from the Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Nationalbankens jubilæums fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Tage Vangaard og Hustru Fond.

05/31/2026

Admission is free for all on the second Tuesday of the month! Stop by the Museum Tuesday, June 9, to visit our exhibits free of charge. Enjoy a guided tour of our core exhibit "We Are America" at 11 a.m. or a look at some items from our collection at our artifact table in the Museum's main gallery.

05/31/2026

05/30/2026

Tomorrow is the last day of our May sale in the Kerstin Andersson Museum Store! Stop by to get 10% off (20% off for Museum members) on bags!

05/30/2026

Visit the Raoul Wallenberg Gallery to see "The Hellstroms of Melrose Street c. 1915" an installation art exhibit by Thomas Hellstrom, open until Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.

This immersive installation by fourth-generation Swedish-American artist Thomas Hellstrom that brings his family’s Swedish-American story on Chicago’s North Side to life. Drawing from his Great Aunt Delores Olsen’s meticulously annotated photo albums, the exhibition features candid, often humorous photographs—including early “selfies”—of Delores, her brother Harlow Hellstrom, and their father Victor, who emigrated from Stockholm in the 1890s.

Delores's handwritten, annotated photographs are the installation's starting point, which pairs a video presentation—an homage to the early movie-houses in Andersonville that Delores and Harlow frequented—with original Victorian furnishings and family heirlooms depicted in the photographs. The installation invites visitors into the everyday world of a young Swedish American family in the early 20th century, enriching the Museum’s mission by connecting historic Swedish experiences with the neighborhood as it exists today.

05/29/2026

Patio Season is now! Enjoy some fika on our patio at the Museum. bring your friends and have some kanelbullar out in the sun!

05/29/2026

The Museum offers engaging summer camp experiences in which participants ages 6 – 12 can play unique games, prepare Swedish foods, sing songs, dance, and learn some of the Swedish language. Camp days are 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. For more information on the camps visit www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/summercamp

Join us for our 2026 Summer Camps! Midsommar Camp runs Monday, June 22 - Friday, June 26. Register at www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/product/34888. Swedish Sommarläger runs Monday, August 3 - Friday, August 7. Register at www.swedishamericanmuseum.org/product/34889.