Maihaugen Museum
Maihaugen in Lillehammer is an open-air museum with 200 buildings, exhibitions, restaurants and experiences for people of all ages. The museum is open all year round, with the greatest activity in the open-air museum during the summer season. Maihaugen is Norway's largest museum outside Oslo.
Maihaugen in Lillehammer is one of the country's most beautiful open-air museums. The museum can tempt you with 200 historic buildings, exciting exhibitions, good food experiences and meaningful experiences for people of all ages.
Maihaugen in Lillehammer is an open-air museum with 200 buildings, exhibitions, restaurants and experiences for people of all ages. The museum is open all year round, with the greatest activity in the open-air museum during the summer season. Maihaugen is Norway's largest museum outside Oslo.
Bring your family and have educational and fantastic cultural experiences together. At Maihaugen you can immerse yourself in life 200 years ago, participate in exciting walking theatre and visit detached houses from every decade in the 1900s. You can experience traditional handicrafts, see the cultural landscape on mountain pastures with animals grazing between sunburnt buildings.
The museum shop offers a rich selection of carefully selected products that reflect the museum's area of responsibility and collections. We offer the special gift for every occasion, for old and young, women and men, including:
- Beautiful, Norwegian jewellery
- A wide selection of craft textbooks
- Children's toys, as we remember them from when we were children
- Silk shawls and knitted garments
- Ceramics and glass
- Linen and wood
Maihaugen is a museum in Lillehammer. It opened at Maihaugen on 2 July 1904 under the name De Sandvigske Samlinger, when Anders Sandvig's private collection was bought by the Society for the Welfare of Lillehammer Town. Anders Sandvig was a dentist who from 1887 had begun to collect old objects from the peasant culture, folk art and craftsmen's tools, and gradually, to a very large extent, buildings, mainly from Gudbrandsdalen. Maihaugen was a pioneer among the Nordic museums because the collection quickly became extensive and detailed. The entire farmyard and summer farms were moved to the museum. In 2011, Maihaugen became a department of the Lillehammer Museum Foundation.
About Maihaugen
Maihaugen in Lillehammer is an open-air museum with 200 buildings, exhibitions, restaurants and experiences for people of all ages. The museum is open all year round, with the greatest activity in the open-air museum during the summer season. Maihaugen is Norway's largest museum outside Oslo.
Bring your family and have educational and fantastic cultural experiences together. At Maihaugen you can immerse yourself in life 200 years ago, participate in exciting walking theatre and visit detached houses from every decade in the 1900s. You can experience traditional handicrafts, see the cultural landscape on mountain pastures with animals grazing between sunburnt buildings.
The Museum Shop
The museum shop offers a rich selection of carefully selected products that reflect the museum's area of responsibility and collections. We offer the special gift for every occasion, for old and young, women and men, including:
- Beautiful, Norwegian jewellery
- A wide selection of craft textbooks
- Children's toys, as we remember them from when we were children
- Silk shawls and knitted garments
- Ceramics and glass
- Linen and wood
Maihaugen is a museum in Lillehammer. It opened at Maihaugen on 2 July 1904 under the name De Sandvigske Samlinger, when Anders Sandvig's private collection was bought by the Society for the Welfare of Lillehammer Town. Anders Sandvig was a dentist who from 1887 had begun to collect old objects from the peasant culture, folk art and craftsmen's tools, and gradually, to a very large extent, buildings, mainly from Gudbrandsdalen. Maihaugen was a pioneer among the Nordic museums because the collection quickly became extensive and detailed. The entire farmyard and summer farms were moved to the museum. In 2011, Maihaugen became a department of the Lillehammer Museum Foundation.
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Contact information
- +47 61 28 89 00
- [email protected]
- Maihaugvegen 1 - 2609 - Lillehammer