Hadeland Folkemuseum
Kongevegen 92
N-2770 Jaren
Norway
Phone: (+47) 61 31 32 80
E-mail:
Hadeland Folkemuseum
is a regional museum
for Hadeland
(Gran, Jevnaker
and Lunner) founded in 1913 and located on
the countryside in Gran township. The museum contains more than 30 buildings from
the period 17th to 20th century and gives you a good impression of
everyday life in the past. All the items in the museum are original and
have been collected from farms in the area. Hadeland
Folkemuseum are located close to Tingelstad old church, also known
as St. Petri. The stone church was built around 1220 and known for its
intact interior from the 16th and 17th century.
The museum also consist a research center.
Welcome to Hadeland Folkemuseum
Visit idyllic Hadeland Folkemuseum this summer and get a glimpse of
everyday life from the past. Last summer we had more than 7000 visitors
visit our open air museum. Our visitors come from all areas in Norway as
well as the local area. We are also happy to have many visitors from
abroad. Many contact the museum to make inquiries
about the collection, local history and genealogy. The museum provides
outreach services in the form of temporary exhibits, talks to local
groups and schools. The educational activities reflect the museum's
commitment to lifelong learning, and have included children's activities
and adult education courses.
The open air museum contains more than 30 buildings from the 17th
to the 20th centuries and gives a good example of everyday
life in the past. In the summertime you can walk around in our beautiful
open air museum by yourself, or you can take a guided tour in some of
the old houses or in Tingelstad old church. We also have areas for
picnicking.
Our cafeteria is open on Saturdays and Sundays during the summer. In our museum gift shop you can buy souvenirs, handicraft, special art wares, beverages and ice cream. The museum gift shop is now open the whole year.
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Entry NOK 40,- (guided tour at 12 or 2 o'clock included)
Children 6-15 NOK 15,-
Group rates:
Less than 15 p NOK 550,- for the group
15 - 45 p NOK 40,- per person
More than 45 persons NOK 30,- pp
For groups;please make appointment for groups in advance.
Follow signs for Hadeland Folkemuseum posted at routes 4 and 34 from Jaren and 240 from Brandbu.
Click to download map here: Kart og veibeskrivelse
Download our booklet
PROGRAM 2010, HADELAND FOLKEMUSEUM
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July 29, 6pm |
Outdoor consert: ”Folk and Ballad”. Andrea Rice is an Irish singer and musician. She has been working professional for over twenty-eight years.Andrea started singing at a very young age with her parents in the church choir. Andrea plays guitar and harp and has a wide repertoire of songs, ranging from all the Irish ballads to popular Irish dance songs to the favourite contemporary love songs as requested at her gigs.Entrance NOK 200,- pp. |
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July 3, 2 pm |
Guided tour in Norwegian: Tingelstad old chuch and Dynna Stone starts 2pm. The Dynna Stone is a roughly 3 meter tall, triangular slab of pinkish-red Sandstone with carved images through the edges and the front. The stone was erected ca. AD 1040 - 1050, and its imagery is considered among the first Christian pictorial art in Norway. Walk through cultural path to Klokkerlåven starts 3 pm. |
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August 1, 12 – 2 pm |
Guided tour in Norwegian at Klokkerlåven (”parish clerks barn”). In the barn there is a display from Grindaker Stavechurch and discoveries from the barn. When the stave church where taken down in 1866, some of the interior was moved to the barn, for instance beautiful angel paintings from the church paneled ceilings was re-used in the barn. |
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August 14 and 15, 4:30pm |
Outdoor theatre: Peer Gynt, written in 1867 by Henrik Ibsen. Interpreted in its day as a satire on the Norwegian personality, Peer Gynt is the story of a life based on avoidance. 2 hours, in Norwegian. Entrance NOK 250,- |
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August 29, 12 - 5pm |
Activity Day and ”Grande Finale” in the Open-air Museum. Activities and demonstration for the whole family when the museum together with Hadeland Husflidslag points to handicraft and diversity. Service in Tingelstad old church (St. Petri) at 11am. |
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September 7 Desember 9, |
Photo exhebition based on museum`s collections, open daily except Monday 9am-3pm. |
Randi
Bjørkviks ‘Hadeland Families’ ca 1700-1880.
Now available on DVD
A
bygdebok for Hadeland has never been published, but the material that
Randi Bjørkvik gathered and organized for one was given to
Randsfjordmuseenes department at Hadeland Folkemuseum in the 1980s and
is now being offered for sale on DVD. Randi Bjørkvik (1919-2007) was
hired by the local authorities in the 1950s to write the genealogy and
farming history for Hadeland. There are around 260 sections of
handwritten notes organized for the parishes Gran/Brandbu and Jevnaker/Lunner.
These references are the most used in the archives at Hadeland
Folkemuseum.
As one would expect, this material is in draft format, written in
Norwegian, and may include errors and missing information. We strongly
recommend that all the information be verified against the primary
sources, see for instance the scanned church books at
www.digitalarkivet.no.
Hans Anders Bergsrud worked, as a volunteer, from 2003 to 2009
digitizing Randi’s material.
Price: NOK 450,- + shipping and tax.
Are you looking for your family connections in Hadeland? Our Documentation Centre are open Thursday from 0900 to 1500 and by appointment.
The Documetation Center contains photos, archive, artefacts as well as a library well suited for genealogists.
Please contact the Documentation Centre by e-mail in advance if you are visiting for research
News
from the Research Center
In
2000 Hadeland Lag of America donated an amount of money to the museum. A
part of the appropriation is now invested in a computer for use in the
center. The museum has also invested in a subscription to Ancestry.com
as well as “Swedish population 1890” and “Emigrants from Gothenburg”
which our visitors in the research center have found very useful. These
investments, together with Randi Bjørkviks unpublished, handwritten
manuscript for the Hadeland local genealogic history (Bygdebok) are
great sources for genealogists. The museum is very thankful for the
contribution from Hadeland Lag, the purchases would not have been
possible without this contribution.
(availabe as booklet in our museumshop for NOK 50,-)
(This article has additional information and pictures)
2009
The Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage
A
national project to place cultural monuments in a wider perspective.
Link to the national project of cultural heritage
here...
In Norway, the bunads are always a proper outfit whether one attends dinner at the Royal Castle or an anniversary. Most Norwegians wear a bunad with which they have a geographical association. They are valued signals of identity and ceremony, thus being created for the purpose.
was a necessary element in Norwegian homes for a number of years and became an usual décorelement at the end of the 1800`s.
An interesting story about a boy from Norway who ended up as city foreman and the early history of the telephone.
The story about Pernille Pedersdatter Rosendal, born 1823, the first woman who knitted "Hadelandsvotten" and the reconstruction in the 1980's.
Johnsrudverkstedet, was established on Roa in Lunner by Gustav Johnsrud (1868-1944), the mechanical workshop which is moved to Hadeland Folkemuseum.
is the Norwegian name on a short shirt worn as a jacket. Characteristic of the busserull is that they, like old shirts, consist of only square and rectangular pieces of fabric.
an insight in the valuable documentation of the emigrants' daily life.
glassworkers gathered outside the factory and the story about Anders Thoen and Gerhard Gulbrandsen
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Link to: Hadeland Lag of America