Hardanger Folk Museum

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Hardanger Folk Museum
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place Utne , Norway
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Folklore and open air museum
opening 1911
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The Hardanger Folk Museum is a folk museum with open-air part in Utne in the southwest region of Norway Hardanger .

The museum was founded in 1911 and is the oldest folk museum in Hordaland ( Vestland province ). The museum shows exhibitions on Hardanger culture and history as well as changing art exhibitions. Part of the museum is an open-air museum with buildings up to 800 years old. Between the buildings of the open-air museum there is an orchard with a wide variety of apples and plums. Other sights are the old school house from Djønno, the textile collection, musical instruments, as well as a boathouse and a storage building.

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Coordinates: 60 ° 25 ′ 34.1 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 7.2 ″  E