Stenberg (museum)
 The bailiff's house |
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| place | Bøverbru, Norway |
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open air museum
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| opening | 1923 |
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Stenberg or Steinberg is a Norwegian open-air museum in Bøverbru, Vestre Toten municipality in Innlandet . The museum was opened in 1923 and built around the Stenberg Amtmannshaus.
The museum
The area of today's museum was acquired in 1790 by the judge Frederick Sommerfeldt. He built the courtyard. In 1802 the magistrate and later governor Lauritz Weidemann bought the farm with his wife and children. He built the facility as it is today. He died in 1856.
In addition to the main building from the 1790s, the complex consists of eleven different houses and an almost 30 hectare park in the English country house style. The system including the interior is largely unchanged from the time of Lauritz Weidemann.
Other buildings in the open-air section are the Øverjordet farm from around 1800, a small farmer's farm, the workers' barracks for a factory worker from the Raufoss match factory from 1875 and various barns.
Since 2006, the museum has been part of Mjøsmuseet, together with the Eiktunet open-air museum . This is a regional museum for the west side of Lake Mjøsa, Gjøvik and Toten.
Stenberg day
During the Stenberg Day ( Stenbergdagen ) in the summer of each year, the museum is livened up with people dressed according to the fashion from around 1800: schoolchildren and students live in the living rooms and the Weidemann family also stays in the museum buildings with their guests. The cultivation of contemporary crops is also demonstrated using historical equipment.
See also
Web links
- Museum website at mjosmuseet.no (norweg./engl.)
- Stenbergdagen
- Mjøsmuseet (norwegian / english)
Coordinates: 60 ° 42 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 9 ″ E