The Norwegian Folk Museum
Visitors to the Norwegian Folk Museum will most surely spend at least an hour here. Marc and I went through the exhibits both indoors and out very quickly and we still ended up staying at least two hours. The buildings which had indoor exhibits closed at 6 but the park remained open until 8 pm.
A carriage. This was the very first exhibit we saw in the very first gallery we visited at the museum.
It mainly showed life in Norway around the 1800s through the clothes people wore, the style of furniture, and the appliances.
These must have been clothes of the middle class folk back in the day. I can't imagine peasant folk wearing these type of clothes while they milked the cows or worked out in the fields.
The wooden furniture here was a clothes press. It was truly an eye opener because clothes pressers were called so mainly because they literally pressed clothes and linens like what was shown in this exhibit.
Shoes and accessories added a touch of fashion then as they do so now.
The following rooms we entered in the building were devoted to the Norwegian folk life. This was by far one of my most favorite parts of the entire museum next to the Stave Church. It was colorful to the max. I also liked the depictions of weddings, village gatherings, and dinners here. I took pictures but they came out hazy since I took pictures of the exhibits behind glass. I decided not to include them.
The Hat Dance
The following pictures were taken in another gallery. I believe they were taken in the room about women's suffrage and liberation movement in Norway from centuries past to the present. There was even the exhibit about the clothes worn by the country's very first female Prime Minister. The 1980's suit was blue and it was accompanied by the briefcase she carried to go to work.
This picture is a scene back in the early 1920's when women in Oslo began enjoying the rights due them as citizens.
This was an even earlier picture of the Norwegian king walking through the streets of Oslo. I believe that's what this was.