Norsk Utvander Museum

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Main building, 2008

The Norsk Utvandrermuseum in the municipality of Stange in Norway is a migration and open-air museum .

More than a million Norwegians emigrated worldwide between 1825 and 2000; about 80% of it to the USA, 5% to Canada and the rest to all other parts of the world. In 1914 the idea of ​​founding a migration museum in Norway arose, but it was not until 1954 that a log cabin was brought from North Dakota to Bygdøy and exhibited there. It has been a migration museum since 1955. Today the log house is part of the open-air museum in the Ottestad district in the municipality of Stange.

Web links

Commons : Norsk Utvandrermuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History . Official homepage, accessed January 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 60 ° 47 '14.4 "  N , 11 ° 7' 26.4"  E