Highlights
Baking of Norwegian lefse
Buy the warm and fresh hardangerlefse in Numedal.
Every Saturday and Sunday
Fairytales from Norway
-listen to fairytales at 12 and 15.
Every Saturday and Sunday
Meet the farm animals
Visit the animals in the big, red barn in Trøndelag.
Highlights of the Museum
Guided tour in the open-air museum, every Tuesday at 12:00.
Daily Programme August 15 - September 26
Every day 10-17
NATURE TRAIL
Do you take the challenge and join in for the museum’s very own nature trail? Suitable for the whole family. Starts from the carpentry workshop and smithy.
MEET THE PIG
In Trøndelag you will find the museum’s pigs. The rest of the animals are grazing in the fields. Which animals can you find of calves, sheeps, chickens and rabbits?
TIMESCAPE 1600-1914
Join a colourful journey through time while learning about the emergence of Norwegian urban culture. Meet Norway’s elite and see how they were influenced by abroad.
ON THE TRACK
Look and find. Look and win! Join this summer’s task path, where you will find the solution to a summer word. Different tasks for all ages. Remember to pick up the task booklet in the Visitor‘s Center!
PAINTING EXHIBITION by Ida Lorentzen.
Stories of 12 paintings inspired by the exhibition TIMESCAPE and old buildings in The Open-Air Museum.
DINNER IN NORWAY
Documentary photographer Andrea Gjestvang has photographed 26 Norwegian households having dinner. Outdoor exhibition.
PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
Norwegian Folk Art, Folk dress, Sami Culture, Reformation, Norwegian Church Art, The Storting Chamber, Finnmark and The Apartment Building
Saturday and Sunday
FAIRYTALES
In Grøslistua, children can enjoy listening to fairytales in front of the fireplace in Numedal. Every day 12:00 & 15:00
THE GROCERY STORE
The Grocery Store sells old-fashioned candies in cones - just like your grandmother remembers it. Children love it!
BAKING LEFSE
Taste freshly baked traditional Norwegian lefse. Watch the process, smell the baking - and taste the result!
SNEKKERSMIA
Meet the blacksmith and carpenter here. Try forging, whittling, carpentry or working with tin.
FARM GAMES
Compete in holding milk buckets, carrying water buckets, stacking firewood or throwing horseshoes. Can you beat your dad? Can you break the record?
ENERHAUGEN
in the Old Town was among Christiania’s - later known as Oslo’s - easternmost suburbs. Here you meet the worker’s wife Agnes, who under simple conditions cooks and makes coffee on a wood stove. Can you help her wash little sister’s shirt?
HOSTS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS
welcome you in the Stave Church, Numedal, Enerhaugen and the Grocery Store.
On selected days
TUESDAYS 12.00
Guided tours in english
WEDNESDAYS 12.00
Special tours (in norwegian)
