The Danish Immigrant Museum

“Return is emailed to the executive director and board members before being filed in order for everyone to review and comment prior to filing.”

“Board members abstain from any decisions involving potential conflicts of interest.”

“Executive director receives a review from the board of directors annually. At that time, the board determines salary for the coming year.”

“Remaining employees receive annual performance reviews conducted by the executive director at which time compensation is determined.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available to the public upon request. In addition, copies of the most recently filed forms 990 are available on guidestar's website.”

“The organization receives a significant amount of support in the form of goods and services from donors and volunteers in the organization's operations, fund raising, admissions desk, museum shop, and museum tours.”

“The genealogy center of the museum of danish america, located on main street in elk horn, collects print, visual, microform and digital materials on danish immigrants and danish americans, their communities and organizations, and provides information on relevant genealogical resources as well as research and translation services to north american and danish patrons both in-house and long-distance. The department also provides support services for the curatorial and exhibitions departments. In fy 2018/2019, more than 570 people visited the genealogy center, while many others contacted the center via phone, email, or mail. Outreach activities included newspaper vignettes, articles written for the america letter, presentations, social media, and meetings with other danish-american archives and organizations. Staff consists of 1 full-time librarian/manager, a .6 fte library assistant, occasional interns and over a dozen local and long-distance volunteers. In fy 2018/2019, genealogy staff and volunteers completed 25 translation requests and 32 in-depth research projects, created several new in-house indexes and databases, added more than 120 new immigrant files to the vertical file collection and updated many more. Thanks to a grant- funded contract position of archival collections manager, over 8000 archival documents were re-ordered and 70 collections were created.”

“The design store displays items and sells items reflecting the best in danish design and books about denmark and danish-american relations. Inventory is selected that reflects the museum's mission of educating and informing its public and includes items from furniture to lighting to jewelry and home interior decoration and books ranging from academic studies to entertaining folklore. Tours & promotion of a 19th century historical danish house.”

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