The Bull Museum ( no, Bull-museet), also known as the Rendalen Village Museum ( no, Rendalen Bygdemuseum), is located at Rendalen's old parish farm dating from 1747 in

Bergset Bergset is the administrative centre of Rendalen Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the river Renaelva, about north of the village of Otnes in the largely rural Østerdalen valley. The villag ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. This was the birthplace and childhood home of the author

Jacob Breda Bull Jacob Breda Bull (28 March 1853 – 7 January 1930) was a Norwegian author, journalist and editor. Biography Jacob Bull was born at Rendalen in Hedmark, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Mathias Bull (1815–1876) and Henriette Margreth ...

(1853–1930). The collection includes the cradle he lay in as a child and furniture from his workroom in Copenhagen. The yard around the vicarage includes, among other things, the grave of the horse Vesleblakken from Bull's short story. The yard is maintained by Rendalen Hagelag. The museum is a venue for various cultural events. Every summer, the play '' Morosamme kropper og arme kroker'' based on Bull's works is performed at the museum grounds. The museum also includes the old Berger school south of the parsonage. Here there are a school museum, a bank museum, and a large musical collection connected with the musician Ottar E. Akre.

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