When the open-air museum was a reality and the Åmland house had been reassembled, the board wanted to build a barn from more or less the same period as the Åmland house, in other words from the middle of the 17 hundreds. There are no such buildings of this type in the area. They have all either rotted away or been torn down.

There was a barn of this type at Engedal that was torn down in 1949. People remembered more or less what the barn looked like. The foundation was still there, so the dimensions of it and the manure cellar were measured. In addition to this hay barn, there were also 4 small hay barns on the farm. The hay from these barns were taken back to the barn by horse on the snow in the Winter. Up in the mountains there were haystacks out in the open and small hay barns.

The part of the barn for the animals was built with notched logs (log cabin style) and the part used to to store hay and grain was framework covered on the outside with simple wood siding.

The whole barn has a sod roof. The barn has 4 stalls for cows and 2 for calves, 1 stall for a horse and room for some sheep. I times of need there were probably some sheep in the mature cellar walking on a mixture of mature and straws.

Sometimes pigs that where going to be slaughtered for Christmas were left in a small shed outside of the barn until Christmas arrived. The pigs sometimes had long hair because it was so cold.

This reconstruction should give a good idea of the barns in that period here in Fjotland.

This building was officially opened the same day at the Stakkeland shed on August 13, 2011.