Hol Bygdemuseum

Hol Bygdemuseum is beautifully located at Hagafoss in Hol municipality, and is built up like an old farm from Hol, with both a homestead and a farm. The museum was established as early as 1914, and has a total of 17 houses from different places in Hol municipality, and most of the buildings are from the 1700s and 1800s.

In the exhibition building you will find rose-painted objects on display. There are also folk costumes from the area on display, showing how people dressed in Øvre Hallingdal in the past. The museum has two beautiful rose-painted buildings, Stasstova from Nestegård in Hovet, which is rose-painted by the Hallingen Kittil Rygg (d. 1809) and one from Ruansgård in Ustedalen, rose-painted by Gudbrandsdølen Kristen Aanstad (1746-1832).

Hol Bygdemuseum is run by Hallingdal Museum, which is also responsible for several other houses in the municipality: Dokken Fjellgard in Sudndalen, Prestestugu and Tingstugu at Hol old church, Nord-Hovet old school and a living room after the Øvrevollseie family in Hovet. Hol bygdemuseum also has guided tours of Hol old church.

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