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Maihaugen tells the history of how people have been living in the Gudbrandsdalen from the Middle Ages until today. Social Institutions such as a church, school, post office, railway station, shops, prisons and military facilities are all represented at the museum. The museum has a rich collection of
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to provide a sample of Norwegian culture and history in a museum. He first started in his backyard, but when his collection grew, in 1901, the town council offered him a permanent site for the museum. In 1904, the city of Lillehammer set aside an area already known as Maihaugen and bought Sandvig's
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is one of the main attractions. In 1882, the church was disassembled and sold to Anders Sandvig, who brought it to Lillehammer, where it was re-erected at Maihaugen in 1920–1921.
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Maihaugen also includes a large photography archive and an indoor museum. Constructed in 1959, they were extended in preparation for the Lillehammer
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Rural Collection – from the villages in Lillehammer, focusing on the period 1700–1850 but also houses dating back to the 15th century
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The open-air museum is divided into three primary sections, the Rural Collection, Historic Town, and the Residential Area.
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Residential Area – consists of the time typical single-family homes from nearly all decades of the 20th century
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Historic Town – collection of buildings from Lillehammer between early 19th century until around 1920
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The following additional institutions are also under the administration of De Sandvigske Samlinger:
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artifacts, furniture, tools and ornaments, ranging in age from the Middle Ages.
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Norwegian Post Museum – Norway's special museum for mail and philately.
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The Sandvig collections: Guide to the open air museum
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collection and established the Sandvig Collections (
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Index

Lillehammer
Norway


Anders Sandvig
Gudbrandsdalen
Norwegian Constitution Day
Garmo Stave Church
1994 Winter Olympics

Aulestad
Gausdal
Nobel Laureate
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjerkebæk
Nobel Laureate
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian Olympic Museum
Old town street at Maihaugen Museum
Assembly Hall of the Temperance Movement
Maihaugen Station
Maihaugen Post Office
Nordre pond at Maihaugen
Typical Norwegian house from the 1950s
Maihaugen (Store norske leksikon)
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