Clausen Museum opens Norwegian immigration exhibit for the festival

Somewhere along the way, a trunk ended up in the Clausen Memorial Museum's storage. Nobody knows how it got there. It has no museum reference number, no donation record, no accompanying note. What it does have is a name, carved into the wood: Gertrude, Arnie's daughter.

"We don't know where it came from at all," said Anne Lee, curator at the Clausen Memorial Museum.

That trunk - "an America trunk," the kind Norwegian emigrants packed for a one-way journey to the States - became the seed of the museum's new Norwegian immigration exhibit, debuting Friday, May 15, alongside the annual Little Norw...