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Program: Early Summer at Norsk Folkemuseum

Explore Norwegian history and culture this summer at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo. Discover living history throughout the open-air museum, daily guided tours, family fun, and engaging exhibitions!

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Explore Norwegian history and culture this summer at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo. Discover living history throughout the open-air museum, daily guided tours, family fun, and engaging exhibitions!

Norsk Folkemuseum
01. May – 22 .Jun 2025
10.00 – 17.00

Tickets and Prices

  • Adults: NOK 195

  • Children (0–17 years): Free

  • Students: NOK 140

  • Seniors (67+)/Persons with disabilities: NOK 150

  • OBOS members (adults): NOK 145 (25% discount)

  • With annual pass: Free

  • With Oslo Pass: Free

Experience the Stave Church and several of the museum’s highlights with one of our costumed guides.

  • All tours are conducted in English.
  • Daily at 11:00, 12:00, 15:00, and 16:00 – meeting point at the Square (Torget).

Just like in the old days, you’ll be swept away as our guide shares whimsical, silly, and dramatic folk tales.

  • Daily at 12:00 and 15:00 in Grøsli, Numedal.

Explore living history in our open-air houses, guided by our knowledgeable hosts:

  • The unique 13th-century Stave Church from Gol.
  • Visit a grand living room from 1738, at Hove
  • Buy old-fashioned sweets, in the Grocery Shop
  • Experience life on a 19th-century farm, at Grøsli
  • Join worker's wife Agnes in 1910, at Enerhaugen
  • See historical agriculture and animals, in the Open-Air Museum

On weekends and public holidays, you can also experience:

  • A bourgeois home from 1769. In Chrystiegården
  • Farmer’s wife Bjørg in 1959. In Stiklestad
  • Blacksmith: Forge your own hook or try carving!
  • Baking of Lefse: Buy our traditional freshly baked lefse.
  • Playground with obstacle course and new play equipment.
  • Gråtass, farmyard games, and a playhouse in Trøndelag.
  • Wooden animals to pet in the barn in Setesdal.
  • Lasso throwing at the Sami settlement.
  • Stilts, barrel hoops, and jump ropes at Karterud and Enerhaugen.
  • Drawingtable and toy cars in the Toy Exhibition.
  • Play- and readingcorner in the Exhibition Hall.

Experience the story of the Norwegians who carved out a community of their own in New York. 

The exhibition follows Norwegian immigrants in Brooklyn through their own photographs and personal stories.

Join a guided tour of "Lapskaus Boulevard":

  • When: May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18 – meet at the temporary exhibitions at 2:00 PM
  • Language: English
  • The tour is included with regular admission.

Our exhibitions tell the story of daily life and living conditions in Norway from the 1500s to the present day:

  • NEW! Lapskaus Boulevard: Norwegian Immigrants in Brooklyn 1950-1970.
  • TIDSROM 1600-1914: Norwegian bourgeois and civil servant culture through everyday life and celebration.
  • Folkekunst: A selection of Norwegian folk art from the Middle Ages to around 1900.
  • Folkedrakt: Festive Dress and Workwear
  • Strikking: The history of knitting from it was introduced in Norway in the beginning of the 1600s until the present day.

And many more!

Map of the open-air museum

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