Voss Museum in Voss, Hordaland, Norway | Museum

Voss Museum is a local museum whose purpose is to preserve items of historic interest from Voss, Norway and the surrounding area. Voss is a community predominantly based on farming, situated in the west of Norway, 100 km east of Bergen. When the Voss Museum was founded in 1917 one of its main aims was to preserve the old farmstead at Mølster (Mølstertunet), where all the buildings still stand where they were once built. Today the Voss Museum also comprises the old farmstead of Nesheim (Nesheimstunet), and Oppheim old parsonage. In 1985 a new collection- and exhibition-building was opened at Mølster. The Museum has over 20 000 registered items in its collections.

In the new exhibition building at Mølster there is a permanent exhibition with items from the Museum´s collections. The exhibition is intended to form a picture of daily life and work as it was in olden times in the Voss district. A conscious effort has been made to set out the different objects in their natural setting. Explanatory texts, illustrated by photos and old proverbial sayings help to convey an idea of our forefathers´ manner of thinking and their general attitude to life. Part of the exhibition- building is set aside for Temporary exhibitions which are replaced a couple of times a year.

Also in the exhibition building is the magazine, where those parts of the collection that are not on display are kept. There is also a library, which contains among other things old volumes of the local newspapers back to the 19th century, and a photo-archive with 3500 registered old photographs from the Voss area.