FOLKEMUSEUM

One of my favorite museums in Oslo is definitely the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History at Bygdøy peninsula.

The museum has a large collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country but the most beautiful part is a large open-air museum with more than 150 buildings, relocated from towns and rural districts.

Norsk Folkemuseum was established in 1894 by Hans Aall, a librarian and historian, but very soon the collections of King Oscar II on the neighboring site was incorporated into the museum.

The museum contains a large photographic archive, including the works of Anders Beer Wilse, a photographer who documented Norway in the early to mid-20th century.

The Christian meeting house, 19th century

Throughout the existence of the museum research has focused on building and furniture, clothing and textiles, technical and social culture, agriculture, working memory and Sami culture.

Farmhouse, Nord-Trøndelag, 1950

Among the museum’s more significant buildings is the 13th-century Gol Stave Church, incorporated into the museum in 1907.

Gol stavekirke

The church is from a small city named Gol, some three hours drive north-west from Oslo. When the city built a new church around 1880, it was decided to demolish the old wooden church. Luckily, the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments (Fortidsminneforeningen), thought that was nonsense, so they saved the church from destruction.

Interior of the Gol stavekirke

They bought the new materials in order to re-erect the church somewhere else. Original murals and medieval artifacts survived and most of the main construction remained intact but almost all of the exterior dates from the 19th century restoration.

Almost like the Hobbiton
Old gas station

I visited the museum both in summer and in the wintertime. It’s hard to tell when is the most beautiful, so I will leave it up to you.

In the summer time they grow vegetables in the museum
to feed the bunnies <3


 

ETNOGRAFSKI MUZEJ

Jedan od dražih muzeja u Oslu, u koji povremeno navratim i koji obavezno preporučim svojim gostima je Etnografski muzej na Bygdøy poluotoku.

Radi se o muzeju norveške kulturne povijesti, muzeju koji skuplja i izlaže brojne artefakte svih socijalnih grupa i regija.

Adventski market

Muzej je, krajem 19. stoljeća, utemeljio knjižničar i povjesničar Hans Aall, a muzeju je ubrzo dodana kolekcija Kralja Oscara drugog.

Glavna zgrada muzeja sadrži kolekciju narodnih nošnji, starog namještaja, tekstila, tehničkih i društvenih artefakata Samija, te značajan foro arhiv, radove Anders Beer Wilsea, norveškog fotografa (nešto kao naš Tošo Dabac).

Ipak, meni osobno, najljepši i najzanimljiviji dio muzeja su razne zgrade, privatne kuće, škole, životinjske štale iz raznih dijelova zemlje.

Među najljepšim je, svakako, drvena crkva iz 13. stoljeća.

Drvena crkva nekad se nalazila u mjestu Gol, nekih tri sata vožnje sjeverozapadno od Osla. Kad je gradska uprava mjesta odlučila sagraditi novu crkvu, krajem 19. stoljeća, razmišljalo se o uništenju stare. Zahvaljujući Društvu za zaštitu spomenika nije došlo do toga već je crkva našla novi dom u Etnografskom muzeju.

Crkvu su rastavili, prevezli i ponovno sastavili u Oslu. Iako je većina murala i unutrašnjih ukrasa originalna, većina eksterijera je rezultat 19stoljetne obnove.

Muzej sam prvi put posjetila prije četiri godine (2015.), zatim u ljeto 2017. i zimu 2018. Sljedeći posjet bukiran je kad mama dođe u svibnju 🙂 Ne mogu se odlučiti kad je ljepši: kad je sav zelen i procvao ili pokriven snijegom.

Definitivno ”must do” kad u Oslu! Dođite da idemo skupa!

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