Meldal rural museum
This museum is owned by the municipality of Meldal and run by Trøndelag Folk museum. This museum is an open-air museum with about 20 well-preserved timber buildings with beautiful interiors.The museum founded in 1931, shows local building styles, living conditions and working life from the 17th century to World War I. It has an idyllic setting with a beautiful view of the surrounding farms and mountains.
The museum includes a "trønderlån" or farm building common in this part of the country, a tenant farmer's croft from about 1910, an upland farm chalet used in summer and a medieval log house with an open hearth and a smoke vent in roof. The museum has three buildings that show how water power was used - a gate saw, a mill and a stamper house where homespun cloth was washed and felted.
Much of the 10,000 artefacts in the museum were collected by the founder of the museum - Eilert Støren. He was one of the pioneers of the open air museum movement and worked as a doctor in Meldal.
Group reservations all year to Trøndelag Folk museum +47 73 89 01 15.
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