Our museums

Bodø city museum

2017-05-04 10:18Bodø city museum, dating from 1903, is among the oldest surviving buildings in the centre of Bodø.
In addition, there is an interesting dry aquarium in the cellar.The first floor in the museum is newly rebuilt and contains changing exhibitions throughout the year.

Kjerringøy Trading Post

2017-05-03 11:45A visit to northern Norway`s best preserved trading post is a journey back in time. Here you can feel the past, with “jektefart” and fish trading, Herring and the daily life in northern Norway coastal communities in the 19 century.

The Hamsun Centre

2017-05-03 11:22Knut Hamsun is one of our foremost writers, and recived the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature for Growth of the Soil. Hamarøy and Nordland is key in Knut Hamsun’s life and writings. A major exhibition of the author’s life and work opens 13 June. Hamsun, 31 Days July – 8 August.
The Knut Hamsun Centre

Beiarn Folk Museum

2017-05-03 09:31The museum is situated at Moldjord by a beautiful salmon river. It has been established at the old vicarage, which dates from 1857. There are 11 farm buildings from the municipality of Beiarn here which were originally built in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exhibitions of old tools, every

Løp Farm

2017-05-03 12:02Løp Farm is situated about 10km from the centre of Bodø on RV834 on the northern side of the Bodø peninsula. Parts of the building are several hundred years old. It has a long and interesting history as a farm occupied by government officials and skippers. The building has been completely restored a

Fauske Folk Museum

2017-05-03 11:10The ”bygdetun” is just a stone’s throw from the busy streets of central Fauske. It faces the fjord and is surrounded by a beautiful birch-wood. The old houses tell their own story of the past and its people.

Sulitjelma mining museum

2017-05-04 09:52The museum was opened in 1977. The collection consists of tools and equipment related to the various sections of the mine: power plant, electrical department, machine room, carpentry workshop, laundry, smelting works and hospital.

Gildeskål Church Site

2017-05-03 11:14Centuries of cultural history pervade the old church site of Gildeskål.

Knut Hamsun’s Childhood Home

2017-05-03 11:52In Hamsund you can visit the house where the writer Knut Hamsun grew up. In the house you will find a small museum with artifacts related to the author and his family. Throughout the tour you will be more familiar with the environment and landscape of Knut Hamsun’s childhood, which he often returned

Hamarøy Folk Museum

2017-05-03 11:19The old trading post of Breidablikk is located in the heart of the municipal centre, Oppeid. Since 1845 it has been an important meeting place in the district. The shop is still in use selling old books. The exhibitions are held in the hayloft. Films can be seen in Tingsalen cinema. Guided tours of

Meløy Folk Museum

2017-05-04 10:33Meløy Folk Museum is situated in idyllic surroundings at Øde on RV17.

Ørnes old trading post

2017-05-04 09:42The Ørnes old trading post is situated in the centre of Ørnes.

Saltdal Folk Museum

2017-05-08 13:40The museum is built up around a beautiful farmstead where the family of skipper Ellingsen lived from 1750 until the end of the nineteenth century.

Blood Road Museum

2017-05-03 11:06The Blood Road Museum is situated in the grounds of Saltdal Museum. The story of the lives and work of prisoners of war under the German regime from 1942-1945 is presented in a German barracks moved here from Dunderdalen. Thousands of prisoners of war from eastern Europe were sent north to build roa

Batterie Dietl

2017-05-03 09:18Experience one of Europe’s largest coastal fortifications from the Second World War. Three of the world’s largest guns were here firing shells with a diameter of 40.6 cm. The fortifications guarded the entrance to Vestfjorden and the important route to Narvik, from where iron ore from Sweden was shi

Steigen Folk Museum

2017-05-04 10:06Welcome to Breidablikk, a doctor’s residence dating from 1877. The lady of the house offers delicious “lefser” and cakes, which can be enjoyed in the café or outside in the lush garden.

The crofter’s cottage in Kjelvik

2017-05-03 11:34Kjelvik is situated at the top of a hill below a woody ridge and stands testament to the conditions the Nothern Norwegian crofters of Sami decent lived by. Time has more or less stood still here since the last occupant passed away in 1967. Here you can experience an authentic croft through the origi