folkmu

Considered one of Europe's biggest open-air museums, the Folk Museum here has over 150 buildings from all over Norway. They have been reconstructed on site and the most famous of these is the Gol Stave Church.

Here Peg takes a break in front of the Gol Stave Church (Stavkirke). This magnificent and stately edifice was built originally around 1200. It deserves a second picture before we go on to some of the many other outdoor buildings and displays.

Here we peer inside an old school house and Peg wonders how it must have been to teach in such a one room school back then. The map in center is of Palestine; the chart on the left must be about weights and measures.

Title: Here Keith poses in front of a traditional stabber or storage building. This is one of several and is located near the stave church.

Keith feels quite at home at this reconstructed "husmannsplass" or cotter's place or farm. A cotter in this case was a tenant farmer usually with life tenure.

This is an old water powered saw mill. We believe this was brought here from the Hordaland area.

Here Peg poses in front of another very old storage building. Again, we believe this came from the Hordaland area.

Here Peg is in front of a home brought from the Jæren region just south of Stavanger. This is a relatively flat open area and the homes here were traditionally built low and protected from the wind with stones and and vegetation.

Here Keith finds the log notching in this farm building of interest. Old farm implements are behind him.

Peg is fascinated by this interesting way of building a fence that we have seen here in many places.

This sturdy two story building is one of our mystery photos. If anyone can identify it for us, please let us know.

Here a group of children were enjoying a carriage ride until the costumed driver brought it to a halt to let us tourist get a good picture.

The carriage ride resumes and heads towards a group of buildings brought here from the Hallingdal region.

We look across a field plowed in the old traditional way toward a group of buildings brought here from the Numedal area. One building is getting a new sod roof.

This beautiful building came from either Hallingdal or Telemark. Similar to a stabbur, it seems almost too nice and ornate for just a storage building. We think it is called a "loft" house (food storage).

We can not remember the details on this interior shot. We think it was in the Telemark group..? The ornate designs on the walls and this box bed are most striking.

Here we have a reconstructed city scene. We forget the details here.

Another old city street scene, this one more residential. The distinctive orange and brown 3 story building on the left is a 1700 era Christiana (Oslo) house.

39. The Norwegian Folk Museum (Norsk Folkemuseum) on the Bygdøy peninsula, Oslo.

See Travel Report #19.