DOI issue:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI article:Bröchner, Georg: The development of the open-air museum in Norway
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0141
Open-Air Museums in Norway
HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : ROOM IN A PARSONAGE FROM VANG
svale, however, being open. The interior is decked
out as for a fete, the floor, well scoured, covered
with fresh juniper branches, and the walls are
hung with the best weavings, the women of the
Gudbrandsdale having always excelled in this craft.
The colours are gay and manifold, as are the
patterns, which comprise motifs in endless variety,
human beings and animals, trees and flowers, often
handled in the quaintest manner, as, for instance,
the Three Wise Men on horseback, to mention one
example amongst many. There are finely carved
utensils for sundry purposes, and almost everything
which this and the other venerable houses contain,
chests and cupboards, spoons and drinking-vessels,
and countless other objects,
are not only possessed of
great value either from their
wtrinsic merits or as a
Weans of illustrating the
Wode of life and the habits
°f their former owners, but
Wany of them have their
°wn separate little story,
droll or pathetic as the case
Way be, which it has been
Sandvig’s delight
to hunt up and faithfully
record.
Although the stabur, the
storehouse, was not in-
tended to serve as a dwell-
Wg for men, it ranked above
the outhouses, and by de-
£rees rose to a building of
distinct architectural
interest, with two stories
and the highly decorative
svale round all four, or more
generally perhaps only the
three, sides, the window then
being on the fourth, the end
wall, on the upper story.
The stabur, which is still
frequently seen in Norway
and Sweden, rests on legs,
so to speak, which again
stand on stones so as to
keep out vermin. Gar-
ments, chests, and utensils
were kept on the first
floor, whilst the ground
floor was given over
to the storage of pro-
visions, only the smoked
hams and sausages being generally hung up in the
svale for air’s sake.
The Mytting stue (p. 119) hails from Ringebu and
is probably rather more than two hundred years old.
Although it tells of further development, its exterior
has much in common with the Hjeltar and the
Lokre houses, only the ravi-loft 'of the latter has
grown into a complete second story, like the ground
floor with three rooms. The svale has been re-
tained, one on the ground and two on the first
floor. It is clear that whiffs from foreign countries
have by this reached the distant valley, for this
stue, amongst other outlandish innovations, contains
a handsome stove, with ornaments and coats of
HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : AN ALCOVE IN A HOUSE FROM
RUD WITH LINEN-CHESTS, ETC. DATING FROM
HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : ROOM IN A PARSONAGE FROM VANG
svale, however, being open. The interior is decked
out as for a fete, the floor, well scoured, covered
with fresh juniper branches, and the walls are
hung with the best weavings, the women of the
Gudbrandsdale having always excelled in this craft.
The colours are gay and manifold, as are the
patterns, which comprise motifs in endless variety,
human beings and animals, trees and flowers, often
handled in the quaintest manner, as, for instance,
the Three Wise Men on horseback, to mention one
example amongst many. There are finely carved
utensils for sundry purposes, and almost everything
which this and the other venerable houses contain,
chests and cupboards, spoons and drinking-vessels,
and countless other objects,
are not only possessed of
great value either from their
wtrinsic merits or as a
Weans of illustrating the
Wode of life and the habits
°f their former owners, but
Wany of them have their
°wn separate little story,
droll or pathetic as the case
Way be, which it has been
Sandvig’s delight
to hunt up and faithfully
record.
Although the stabur, the
storehouse, was not in-
tended to serve as a dwell-
Wg for men, it ranked above
the outhouses, and by de-
£rees rose to a building of
distinct architectural
interest, with two stories
and the highly decorative
svale round all four, or more
generally perhaps only the
three, sides, the window then
being on the fourth, the end
wall, on the upper story.
The stabur, which is still
frequently seen in Norway
and Sweden, rests on legs,
so to speak, which again
stand on stones so as to
keep out vermin. Gar-
ments, chests, and utensils
were kept on the first
floor, whilst the ground
floor was given over
to the storage of pro-
visions, only the smoked
hams and sausages being generally hung up in the
svale for air’s sake.
The Mytting stue (p. 119) hails from Ringebu and
is probably rather more than two hundred years old.
Although it tells of further development, its exterior
has much in common with the Hjeltar and the
Lokre houses, only the ravi-loft 'of the latter has
grown into a complete second story, like the ground
floor with three rooms. The svale has been re-
tained, one on the ground and two on the first
floor. It is clear that whiffs from foreign countries
have by this reached the distant valley, for this
stue, amongst other outlandish innovations, contains
a handsome stove, with ornaments and coats of
HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : AN ALCOVE IN A HOUSE FROM
RUD WITH LINEN-CHESTS, ETC. DATING FROM