Sponsors

The Norwegian Emigration Center receives public funding from the Rogaland County Council, the City of Stavanger and the municipality of Tysvær. To balance our budgets, however, we are quite dependent on private sponsors.
On this page, we will present our sponsors to give them a public face and to thank them for their support.

If you think the Norwegian Emigration Center is worthy of your support, we have made it easy for you to make a contribution.

Supporters

Society of Norwegian American Engineers, Inc. New York
The Society of Norwegian American Engineers, Inc. was established by a group of young and enthusiastic Norwegian engineers and architects, in New York on November 26, 1925. Then it was called the Norwegian Engineers Society, NES. By the late 1960s, however, it changed its name to SNAE.

SNAE continued to gather people for their meetings and parties for many years, but facing a decrease in the members during the 1980s, the board decided to wind up the business and donate its assets to the Norwegian Emigration Center in the early 1990s.

These donations made it possible for the Center to continue to help people of Norwegian descent to find their roots, and to establish ourselves in an old wharfhouse in the center of the city.

Arne D. Larsen
Arne D. Larsen was also a member of the Norwegian Engineer´s Society in New York, where he played a key role as treasurer in the 1960s. Larsen was born in Stavanger in 1905 and emigrated to the USA in 1946 after many years at sea. In New York he established his own business from which he has retired. In 2001 he made a generous donation to the Norwegian Emigration Center in the memory of his wife Karoline. His donation has made it possible for the Emigration Center to keep up its genealogy service to Norwegian - Americans tracing their roots. Arne D. Larsen was living in St. Petersbug in the state of Florida when he passed way in May 2003.