Eiktunet
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| place | Gjøvik, Norway |
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open air museum
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| opening | 1954 |
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Eiktunet is an open-air museum in Gjøvik , Fylke Innlandet , Norway . It was founded in 1954 and is a museum on rural cultural history. It comprises 33 buildings. These include a mill built in 1850 with a mill pond, a yard, a cottage, a plumber's workshop, a forest hut, a forge and a school. In the modern museum building "Octagon", originally built in 1960 as a dance floor, there are special and permanent exhibitions. Outside there is a playground and an open-air stage in the form of an amphitheater.
Organizationally, the museum has been part of Mjøsmuseet since 2006, together with the Stenberg open-air museum and other collections. This is a regional museum for the west side of Lake Mjøsa, for Gjøvik and Toten.
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Coordinates: 60 ° 48 ′ 18.4 " N , 10 ° 38 ′ 44.9" E