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Christmas Week at Norsk Folkemuseum

Keep the holiday spirit alive and enjoy the festive season at Norsk Folkemuseum. Each day offers cozy Christmas experiences and guided tours through our beautifully decorated, atmospheric, and wintry museum grounds.

Keep the holiday spirit alive and enjoy the festive season at Norsk Folkemuseum. Each day offers cozy Christmas experiences and guided tours through our beautifully decorated, atmospheric, and wintry museum grounds.

Norsk Folkemuseum
26. – 31. Dec 2025
11.00 – 16.00
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Guided tours

Stian Nybru/Norsk Folkemuseum

Christmas Preparations and Traditions

At. 13.00

We go back to a busy Christmas eve morning: in three different houses in the open air museum we look at different Christmas preparations, at different times, in the village and city, and in different social classes.

Morten Brun

The Stave Church and The Hove Farmhouse

At 12.00 and 14.00

Step into the beautiful 13th-century Stave Church from Gol and visit a grand living room from 1738. 

Timetravels

Experience Christmas Eve on a farm in Numedal in 1851.

12:00 and 15:00 – Norwegian Fairytales
Let yourself be carried away into the world of fairy tales!

Step into Christmas Eve with a working-class family in Kristiania in 1910.

Housewife Bjørg welcomes you into her beautiful, Christmas-decorated home from Trøndelag.

Explore a Christmas-decorated Grocery shop with old-fashioned sweets to delight both young and old.

Buy a traditional Norwegian lefse, made on a griddle over an open fire, at the bakehouse in Numedal. 

Forge your own hook or try your hand at whittling!

Meet pigs, sheep, calves, rabbits, and chickens in the barn.

Explore

  • Jæren 1906
  • Finnmark 1959
  • Saga-stua 1822
  • Raulandstua 1270
  • Haali 1883
  • Nes 1801
  • Enerhaugen 1925 and 1951
  • The apartment building Wessels gate 15: 1879, 1965, 1905, 1950
  • Christmas exhibition
  • Folk dress
  • Folk Art
  • Timscampe 1600- 1914
  • The Storting Chamber
  • Knitting

Outside:

  • Large playground with obstacle course
  • Gråtass the tractor, in Trøndelag
  • Lasso throwing at the Sami settlement

Inside:

  • Play and reading corner in the Exhibition Hall
  • Drawing and playing in the Toy Exhibition
  • Detective games in the Museum Loft