Main Attractions

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Gol Stave Church

Gol Stave Church was built around 1200, and it is one of 28 remaining stave churches in Norway.

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The Apartment Building

The Apartment Building shows apartments presenting interior styles of different periods of the 19th, 20th and 21st century.

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The Old Town

The Old Town has buildings from Christiania (now Oslo) and suburbs as well as other Norwegian towns. King Christian IV founded Christiania in 1624 after the old city of Oslo, which mainly had wooden structures, burned to the ground.

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Exhibits

Norsk Folkemuseum presents comprehensive indoor exhibits on Norwegian culture.

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The Setesdal Farmstead

Norsk Folkemuseum’s Open-Air Museum consists of farmsteads from different regions in Norway. The farmstead from Setesdal is built for two households, which was common before the land reforms in the 19th century.

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The Collections of King Oscar II

The Collections of King Oscar II were established at the King's Summer Residence at Bygdøy in 1881 and were opened to the public the following year. The collections are reckoned as the World's First Open Air Museum.