Maihaugen

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Maihaugen
Maihaugen entrance.jpg
Maihaugen entrance
Data
place Lillehammer, Norway
Art
cultural history museum, Gudbrandsdal regional museum, open-air museum
opening 1904
Website

Maihaugen is a cultural history museum with an open-air museum as well as a regional museum of the Gudbrandsdal in Lillehammer in Norway . It is the most visited tourist attraction in the region.

history

The museum was founded by the dentist Anders Sandvig (1862–1950) under the name De Sandvigske Samlinger (The Sandvig Collections) , who began collecting old houses and farm buildings from Gudbrandsdal on his private property in 1887. When his site became too small, the city of Lillehammer offered him the current site for use in 1904, which at that time was already called Maihaugen (May Hill) and represented a kind of city park.

The museum opened in 1904 and is now a popular destination for local residents to celebrate May 17th ( Norwegian National Day ) and to burn a Whitsun fire. In 2005 the name Maihaugen finally caught on.

exhibition

Maihaugen Open Air Museum, Lillehammer, Garmo Stave Church

The museum consists of around 200 historical buildings in three areas:

  • The village (Bygda) - Gudbrandsdal settlements in the 18th and 19th centuries, including Garmo stave church
  • The city (Byen) - Lillehammer at the beginning of the 20th century
  • The housing estate (Boligfeltet) - houses from almost all decades of the 20th century

Exhibitions:

  • How the country slowly became ours - an exhibition on Norwegian history
  • Hidden treasures - from the Maihaugen collections
  • The old workshops - craft exhibition
  • Local art and handicrafts from Gudbrandsdalen

There are also cafes, historic shops and activities, as well as the Norwegian Post Museum (Postmuseet) since 2003 and the Norwegian Olympic Museum since 2016 . The Norwegian Craft Institute , whose mission is to preserve ancient craft traditions and preserve Norway's intangible cultural heritage , is also based in Maihaugen.

Today Maihaugen, together with the Norwegian Postal Museum and the Olympic Museum, is managed by the Lillehammer Museum Foundation, which also includes the Lillehammer Art Museum , Bjerkebæk , the Sigrid Undsets house in Lillehammer, and Aulestad , the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons estate in Gausdal .

See also

Web links

Commons : Maihaugen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is Norwegian crafts institute , accessed March 20, 2020
  2. ↑ Lillehammer Museum Foundation , accessed on March 20, 2020 (Norwegian)

Coordinates: 61 ° 6 ′ 46.2 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 42.4 ″  E