Welcome to Hardanger folkemuseum  The Hardanger folkemuseum at Utne is a museum for the whole of the Hardanger district. Since it’s founding in 1911 the museum has collected old houses, furniture, clothes and tools plus a wide variety of other objects of cultural-historical importance from the country districts around the Hardangerfjord.In the outdoor collection at the museum we have tried to reconstruct a cluster-farm as it would have looked at the middle of the last century. The majority of buildings are from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but a couple of the dwellings have a longer history. All the buildings are fitted out as we imagine them to have looked when in use. The collections also include an old school building and a cottars farm. Several boathouses are at the shore and here there are exhibited local types of boats and fishing tackle. Alongside these is the old local general merchant’s shop from Utne.  Fruit-farming has long traditions in Hardanger and at the museum you can see an orchard with varieties of fruit which used to be commonplace but have now disappeared elsewhere.The museum has a modern exhibition and administration building where there are regular theme exhibitions as well as permanent exhibitions of traditional crafts and folk-art. Throughout the whole summer and sporadically during the remainder of the year, there are exhibitions of contemperary art. |
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