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Heddal Open Air Museum (''Heddal bygdetun'') is an open-air museum located in the village of Heddal at ''Heddal Open Air Museum'' (Heddal og Notodden museumslag)
/ref> The museum can be visited from 15 June through 15 August every summer. Heddal is a living museum, with animals raised on the premises.
Official site (in English)
Official site (in Norwegian)
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Heddal Open Air Museum (''Heddal bygdetun'') is an open-air museum located in the village of Heddal at Notodden
Notodden () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Øst-Telemark. ...
in Vestfold og Telemark
Vestfold og Telemark (; ) is a county under disestablishment in Norway. The county is the southernmost one of Eastern Norway and consists of two distinct and separate traditional regions: the former counties of Telemark and (most of) Vestfold. T ...
county, 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 ...
.
Heddal Open Air Museum is located near the historic Heddal Stave Church
Heddal Stave Church ( nb, Heddal stavkirke, nn, Heddal stavkyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Notodden Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Heddal. It is the church for the Hedd ...
. Heddal Museum has various buildings representative of the history of local farming dating from the Middle Age
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...
s and up to the 1930s. ''Fyrileivstugu'', a living room interior dating from 1932, was transferred to Heddal Museum in 1990. It was the work of noted wood carver and rosemaling
Rose-painting, , or is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-19th century, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called , c. 1901, for the region where it had been most popular ...
artist, Olav Fyrileiv (1875–1975) who was a Telemark native.
In 2010, the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum ( no, Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum) is an industrial museum located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. Located in the Vemork power station, it was established in 1988 to allow the preservation of industrial society crea ...
, which is located nearby at Rjukan
Rjukan () is a town and the administrative centre of Tinn municipality in Telemark, Norway. It is situated in Vestfjorddalen, between Møsvatn and Lake Tinn, and got its name after Rjukan Falls west of the town. The Tinn municipality council grant ...
in Tinn
Tinn is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Rjukan.
The parish of ''T ...
, took over operational management of Heddal Open Air Museum. Heddal and Notodden Museum Society (''Heddal og Notodden museumslag'') retained ownership of the buildings and collections./ref> The museum can be visited from 15 June through 15 August every summer. Heddal is a living museum, with animals raised on the premises.
References
External links
Official site (in English)
Official site (in Norwegian)
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