Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

The Norwegian Folk Museum (translated: the Norwegian Folk Museum ) on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo is the central museum of cultural history in Norway.

History

The museum was on December 19, 1894 in Kristiania, now Oslo, on the initiative of the librarian Hans Aall ( 1869-1946 ) founded. Was modeled on the existing since 1873 Nordic Museum in Stockholm, in 1880 received its current name in 1891 and extended to the open air museum Skansen. Hans Aalls vision was a Norwegian parallel that should be " everything lit up the Norwegian people 's cultural life ", collect and exhibit. All material traces of human life and activity in urban and rural areas should be preserved, researched and taught through exhibitions and publications.

His first exhibition the museum opened in 1896 in an apartment in the Christian IVs gate 13 In 1898 the museum a piece of land at Bygdøy and began with the reconstruction of several village houses, which had already been purchased for a planned museum. It was for the election of the land of importance that it was in the neighborhood of 1881 compiled building collection of King Oscar II, which can be regarded as the first open air museum in the world. In 1907 the museum was this ensemble Oscar II, which inter alia contained the medieval stave church from Gol, affiliate 's own holdings.

To create space for the growing collection in 1914, the site was expanded and built a new museum building. At the same time one began with the purchase of townhouses that you abtrug piece by piece and in a so-called " Old Town " ( " Gamlebyen " ), with specially constructed roads, aufstellte again. After an architectural competition, the installation was created 1934-1938 by the marketplace of the museum. In the following years, the open-air museum was greatly expanded to show with the aim of complete farmsteads from 15 regions of Norway; the plan was never completed.

After the death of Hans Aalls was from 1946-1975 Reidar Kjellberg director of the National Museum. His successors were Hallvard Bjørkvik (1975-1989), Erik Rudeng (1990-2000) and Olav Aaraas ( since 2001).

Presence

The collections and the open air museum continued to grow in the postwar period. The "old town" buildings were added, had to make way for urban renewal of Oslo. Last increase was a 1999-2002 reconstructed tenement house, the gate before in the 15 Wessels had been in Oslo East. By 2009 apartments will be furnished in the building on three floors, which should give an overview of the Norwegian home decor from about 1880 to the present.

In 1990 the Museum took over large parts of the Norwegian collections from the Nordic Museum. For the 100th anniversary in 1994, the museum was able to take a new visitor center and new magazines in use. A Norwegian painter Fritz Thaulow dedicated Museum, the Norwegian Pharmacy Historical Museum and the Ibsen Museum in Henrik Ibsen gate 26 are part of the collection.

The museum managed by a foundation and the building and the park on the Bogstadhof in Sørkedalen. In 2004, the Norwegian Folk Museum, the administration of the royal landscape parks, roads and farm buildings, but not of the court and the private park of the royal family.

Besides the mentioned houses and exhibits are today to visit the first session hall of the Norwegian Storting, a petrol station dating from 1928, a post office, a dental practice and popular culture objects of the seeds. The collections now include 155 historic buildings from the Middle Ages to modern times and about. 155 000 items.

The Norwegian Folk Museum was from the beginning under the auspices of a club, but was in 1990 an independent foundation with attached sponsor organization that currently (2006) has approximately 2,000 members. The museum is mainly financed by government subsidy. Recently (2004) it registered 266 176 visitors annually. Since 1943, the museum gives the yearbook " By og Bygd " (city and country) out.

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