DOI Heft:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: The development of the open-air museum in Norway
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0142
Open-Air Museums in Norway
HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : ENTRANCE TO A HOUSE FROM GRIMSRUD
and the rooms as they now
stand abound with regular
furniture, though from past
centuries ; but the illustra-
tions must speak for them-
selves, although more
especially the large kitchen
well deserves some notice
being taken of it. It was
the realm of the pastor’s
wife, and hither all the
parishioners were wont to
come for help and ad-
vice, and on festive occa-
sions sumptuous repasts
were prepared there, as is
demonstrated by some old
annotations, one dinner
comprising two kinds of
soup, two dishes with
arms, bearing the date 1659. The long fixed benches
and fixed cupboards have also had to give way
to a more promiscuous and arbitrary order of things,
but then it should be pointed out that the Mytting
stue does not belong to the group of downright
peasants’ homes, but rather has been the residence
of some official.
The old parsonage from Yaage was the home
of sixteen pastors prior to the year 1786 ; two years
later it was transferred to the pastor, who under-
took to keep it in repair, and since then it has
passed from pastor to
pastor until bought for the
Sandvig collections. It
was probably built about
the middle of the seven-
teenth century, and is a
good-sized one-storied
house, square in its plan,
with four rooms, including
a very large kitchen and
an open svale at the one
end, which, however, does
not proceed right to the
side walls. As with the
houses already described
there is some fine work-
manship in the timber, and
the deviations from the
ancient aarestue, at least
in the exterior, are not of
any great moment. The
interior, however, has be-
come far more modern,
entrees and patees (with oysters, cray-fish, &c.),
four different joints, partridges, capons, half a
dozen different sweets, and plenteous dessert.
Times, after all, had changed since the days of the
ancient aarestue.
The work M. Sandvig has done at Maihaugen
is beyond lauding, but if praise were needed a
Swedish writer supplied it the other day, when
generously comparing Sandvig’s genius with that of
Artur Hazelius, the creator of Skansen.
It can be no matter of surprise that the results
BYGDO OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, CHRISTIANIA: “ RAFTHUSF.N ” OR LOFT-HOUSES FROM
TILEMARKEN
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HAMAR OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, NORWAY : ENTRANCE TO A HOUSE FROM GRIMSRUD
and the rooms as they now
stand abound with regular
furniture, though from past
centuries ; but the illustra-
tions must speak for them-
selves, although more
especially the large kitchen
well deserves some notice
being taken of it. It was
the realm of the pastor’s
wife, and hither all the
parishioners were wont to
come for help and ad-
vice, and on festive occa-
sions sumptuous repasts
were prepared there, as is
demonstrated by some old
annotations, one dinner
comprising two kinds of
soup, two dishes with
arms, bearing the date 1659. The long fixed benches
and fixed cupboards have also had to give way
to a more promiscuous and arbitrary order of things,
but then it should be pointed out that the Mytting
stue does not belong to the group of downright
peasants’ homes, but rather has been the residence
of some official.
The old parsonage from Yaage was the home
of sixteen pastors prior to the year 1786 ; two years
later it was transferred to the pastor, who under-
took to keep it in repair, and since then it has
passed from pastor to
pastor until bought for the
Sandvig collections. It
was probably built about
the middle of the seven-
teenth century, and is a
good-sized one-storied
house, square in its plan,
with four rooms, including
a very large kitchen and
an open svale at the one
end, which, however, does
not proceed right to the
side walls. As with the
houses already described
there is some fine work-
manship in the timber, and
the deviations from the
ancient aarestue, at least
in the exterior, are not of
any great moment. The
interior, however, has be-
come far more modern,
entrees and patees (with oysters, cray-fish, &c.),
four different joints, partridges, capons, half a
dozen different sweets, and plenteous dessert.
Times, after all, had changed since the days of the
ancient aarestue.
The work M. Sandvig has done at Maihaugen
is beyond lauding, but if praise were needed a
Swedish writer supplied it the other day, when
generously comparing Sandvig’s genius with that of
Artur Hazelius, the creator of Skansen.
It can be no matter of surprise that the results
BYGDO OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, CHRISTIANIA: “ RAFTHUSF.N ” OR LOFT-HOUSES FROM
TILEMARKEN
T 20