The mill on the stream
Run by water on summer days.
Sturla Binder — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Maarten Heerlien from Voorschoten, The Netherlands — CC BY 2.0 · Maarten Heerlien from Voorschoten, The Netherlands — CC BY 2.0 · Maarten Heerlien from Voorschoten, The Netherlands — CC BY 2.0
A small timber building you see on every old Norwegian farm, lifted off the ground on short posts capped with wide stone discs. The posts raise the floor above damp and snow, and the stone discs stop mice climbing — a simple answer to keeping food before refrigeration. Grain, salted meat and dried fish were stored in it, and it is often the handsomest and most carved building on the farm, because it displayed the owner's wealth.
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An open-air museum on the island of Osterøy north-east of Bergen, about twenty kilometres and one bridge away — half an hour by car, and the closest way to see the old Norwegian countryside from the city. Its core is a complete nineteenth-century farm left on its original site rather than moved: the dwelling house, the barn, the storehouse raised on posts, and the mill on the stream. That is an important difference from open-air museums that gather buildings from scattered places — here the relationship between the buildings, the land and the water is as it was. Added to that is a display on the craft the island was known for: weaving woollen cloth, which its people worked at in their own houses and sold in Bergen. In summer craftspeople work on site and the loom and the mill are run. The visit is almost entirely seasonal — check the hours before driving out.
Run by water on summer days.
The island craft that was sold in Bergen.
Osterøy, north-east of Bergen