av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
The Fjotland General Store is located behind the Fjotland Municipal Hall. Much of the inventory came from the the store owned by Audny and Tor Norås at Fjotland. There is a beautiful scale in the middle of the store. There are many interesting details from the...
av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
In the Spring of 2012 another building was added to the open-air museum. Gunvald Vatland built a hay barn near the Engedal barn. This type of building was quite common in the mountains in our area for storing hay. People would go up in the mountains during the Summer...
av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
The museum had forging equipment but no Blacksmith workshop. It was then decided to build a building that would house this equipment. Jøren Åsemoen’s house was torn down some years ago and the materials from the house were given to the museum and used to build...
av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
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...
av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
The shed was located at Stakkeland. The historian, Johan Jerstad, believed that this was originally a double shed with an entrance in the middle. He believed that the shed was from the time when it was separated in 1684. Originally the shed had only one story. A...
av Per Øistein Rogstad | feb 6, 2025 | English
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...
