The Åmland house came to the museum in 1997.
The house was moved from the farm of Peder Pedersen at Øvre Åmland. Pedersen had been given permission to build a new house on the farm, but that meant that the old house had to be torn down. In the Summer of 1991, the house was disassembled. The logs from this log house and the rest of the materials were stored at the museum.
In 1995 Erling Egeland and Tønnes T. Kvinlaug started to reassemble the house. On June 29, 1997 the museum and the Åmland house were officially opened.
We are not sure how old the house is but there is information that there was a fire in 1768. We therefore believe that this house was built in 1768-69, but with wood from the old house. We can see from the door sills and some of the frames and the walls in the attic that they had been used previously.
According to the book Fjotland Gards- og ættesoge the house has had 13 owners. Jesper Knudson (1733-1808) must have been the man who built the house. The house was owned by Peder Pedersen when it was donated to the museum.