Welkommen til Norske Folkemuseum!
Come along with us to the world’s first open air museum – the Norsk Folkmuseum in Oslo! We interview Inger Jensen and Siv Ringdal, both first curators at the museum about the oldest buildings, such as the Gol Stave Church from the 1200s, as well as more contemporary history in farm buildings of the 1950s, a Trekking Association (DNT) hytte, and an apartment building from downtown Oslo. Living history museums are relevant and important to us today. Listen to this podcast to learn why.
Links
Norsk Folkemuseum website has some great pictures of their many buildings and collections.
Gol Stave Church, and the other remaining churches in Norway, described at stavechurch.com
The Gol replica stave church in Scandinavian Heritage Park, Minot, North Dakota, USA has carved portals and doors carved by Philip Odden and Elsa Bigton of Barronet, Wisconsin – the same people who taught Ron Loge how to carve his stabbur portals.
Books by Dr. Siv Ringdal about Norwegians who emigrated to the USA.
Published works by Dr. Inger Jensen, who has since retired from the Folk Museum
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