Hallingdal Museum Nesbyen (formerly Hallingdal Folkemuseum) is an open-air museum at
Nesbyen
Nesbyen is a town and the administrative center in Nesbyen municipality in the county of Viken, Norway. Nesbyen is located in the traditional district of Hallingdal.
Summary
Nesbyen has a population of about 3,500 inhabitants. It is located ...
within
Nes
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in
Viken county
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*Viken, Scandinavia, a historical region
*Viken (county), a Norwegian county established in 2020
*Viken, Sweden, a bimunicipal locality in Skåne County, Sweden
*Viken (lake), a lake in Sweden, part of the part of the Göta cana ...
,
Norway
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Hallingdal Folk Museum was founded in 1899. It is one of the oldest open-air museums in Norway. The museum has 30 historic buildings and some 30,000 artifacts from the region of
Hallingdal
Hallingdal ( en, Halling Valley) is a valley as well as a traditional district located in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud in Viken county in Norway. It consists of six municipalities: Flå, Nes, Gol, Hemsedal, Ål and Hol.
Hal ...
.
The museum consists of several branches located in different municipalities:
Dagali Museum (Hol municipality),
Gol Bygdetun (Gol Municipality),
Hemsedal Bygdetun
Hemsedal Bygdatun is a small museum in Ulsåk in Hemsedal municipality in Viken county, Norway. The museum is a subsidiary of Hallingdal Museum Hallingdal Museum Nesbyen (formerly Hallingdal Folkemuseum) is an open-air museum at Nesbyen within ...
(Hemsedal municipality),
Hol Bygdemuseum Hol Bygdamuseum is an open-air museum located at the village of Hagafoss in Hol in Viken (county), Viken county, Norway.
Hol Bygdamuseum is a subsidiary of Hallingdal Museum, the regional folk museum for Buskerud. The museum is located in the trad ...
(Hol municipality) and
Ål Bygdamuseum (Al Municipality), as well as the former mountain farm Dokken Fjellgard at Sudndalen in
Hol. All museum departments in Hallingdal have a main emphasis on the farm culture of the 17th and 19th century.
''Hallingdal museum, Nesbyen'' (historieboka.no)
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References
External links
Hallingdal Folkemuseum Official website
Hallingdal
Open-air museums in Norway
Museums in Viken
Nes, Buskerud
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