Bagn Bydesamling is a small museum located in the hamlet of Dolven, south of

Bagn Bagn is the administrative centre of Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Begnadalen valley, about to the southeast of the town of Fagernes. The river Begna runs through the village on its way th ...

Sør-Aurdal Sør-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn. Other villages in the municipality include Begna, Hedalen, a ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county Norway. The museum is situated in the traditional district of

Valdres Valdres () is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between the districts of Gudbrandsdalen and Hallingdal. The region of Valdres consists of the six municipalities of Nord-Aurdal, Sør-Aurdal, Øystre Slidre, Vestre Sl ...

and is run as a subsidiary of Valdres Folkemuseum.

History

The museum was founded in 1920 on the Islandsmoen farm. It includes the farm itself, a saw mill, a flour mill, and other furnished buildings. The museum consisting of 12 log buildings and a building for permanent displays. The collection was donated to the village in 1941 by Olaus Islandsmoen, a local politician and educator. Additionally, the museum has exhibition about composer Sigurd Islandsmoen and an exhibition about the author

Mikkjel Fønhus Mikkjel Fønhus (14 March 1894 – 28 October 1973) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist and short story writer. Fønhus' stories are often set in the wilderness, featuring animals and animal behaviour. Personal life Mikkel Arnesen Fønhus was bo ...

. The museum contains a preserved farm, a saw with water stream and a neighborhood school with an original interior. The museum has also displays at the small farms Sandviken and Bagnsbergatn. The last one is the site of a Norwegian

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

memorial location. All the items in the museum are original and have been collected from various farms and other locations in the area. The permanent display consists of artifacts from both the Stone Age and

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...

, textiles and clothing, furniture and kitchen items, and artifacts from the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...

Collection

* ''Telthuset'' — regimental arsenal for Ytre Valdreske Kompagni * ''Prestgardsboligen'' — priest farm house * ''Stabelbygningen'' — building for tenant farmer living in Perstgarden * ''Seterbu'' — mountain farmhouse * ''Oppgangssag'' — sawmill * ''Bekkekvern (mølle)'' — watermill * ''Stabbur''— Storage houses * ''Smie'' — iron works with blast furnace * ''Koie (skogshusvære)'' — hut (forest shelter) * ''Båtnaust'' — boathouse * ''Badstue (korntørke)'' — sauna for corn drying

Gallery

Image:Telthuset, Bagn Bygdesamling.JPG, Telthuset, 1813 - 1850. Image:Stabbur Hølerseterbrøtin, Bagn Bygdesamling.JPG, Stabbur Hølerseterbrøtin. File:Bagnsbergatn gård, stua.jpg, Bagnsbergatn gård.

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Bagn Bygdesamling
Sør-Aurdal Open-air museums in Norway Museums in Innlandet {{Norway-museum-stub

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