International studio (48.1913)

Open-Air Museums in Norway


room in the Lokre stue is
20 feet by 23, and 13 feet
high from the floor to the
ridge-pole or roof-tree, there
being no loft over the big
room. It will be readily
understood that this house
has not sprung direct from
the aarestue. Intermediate
phases. had to be passed :
the first little leaden window
has grown and multiplied,
as has the furniture, though
still by no means excessive ;
the p>eis (open fireplace) still
found in many Norwegian
houses, and now having again
become a regular institution,

THE MAIHAUGEN OPEN-AIR MUSEUM: THE “ MY1T1NG
completely panelled in on the outside, so it really
becomes a corridor; and the svale at the end, as
already mentioned, has two stories. The large

has superseded the aare, its
stue ” (see i>. no) , , • •
y place being in the corner
opposite the entrance. Also
the “high-seat” has been removed to the wall in
the corner opposite to the peis; but the long
benches still run along the walls, and in one


THE MAIHAUGEN OPEN-AIR MUSEUM 1 BEDROOM OF PARSONAGE FROM VAAGE (see p. 120)