The Apartment Building

The 19th Century Apartment Building from Wessels gate 15 in Oslo contains eight period interiors and three exhibitions.

In 1998 OBOS – Oslo Cooperative Housing Cooperation – offered Norsk Folkemuseum Wessels gate 15, an old three-storey brick building from down town Oslo. Wessels gate 15 was built in 1865, and was very typical for the residential quarters in the older parts of Oslo.

Wessels gate is situated between the West End and the East End of Oslo and used to be an area occupied be the middle class, or rather petit bourgeoisie, mostly shopkeepers, craftsmen and employees with some upper middle class and some working class elements.

The Apartements

The Doll's House – 1879

A home furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly.

A Norwegian Home in a New Age – 1905

Art Nouveau, Traditional Craft and Dragon Style.

Modern Living – 1935

A modern woman with modern ideas and a modern life in a modern home.

The Cleaning Lady's Home – 1950

A working class home in the mid 20th Century

Teak, TV and Teenager – 1965

An engineer’s family with a teenager son and an eight year old daughter.

The Architecs' Home – 1979

A modern life style not tied up in traditional ways of arranging the home

The Student's Bedsitter – 1982

A Pakistani Home in Norway – 2002

The home of a family of first genetation immigrants

Exhibitions

Living in the City

- the Brick Building and it's People

The Wine Monopoly

Holmestrand, 1932.

Painter and Decorator

His Work and Tools

Domestic Technology

How did modern technology such as electricity affect domestic life in Norway? During the summer of 2022 we will reopen our exhibition about the development of domestic technology 1865-1999.