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![A “chest piece” from Bu museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-3.jpg?itok=OmJbReR9)
![Nils Hertzberg’s prospectus from 1825 of “Ålmerket” and the site of the long ship shed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_390-4.jpg?itok=xZB1WC6Y)
Kinsarvik
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketing place, a “kaupang”, here; a connecting point in the communications between east and west. There were supposedly around 300 residents here but the place was likely wiped out in a great fire.
![The chest from Sekse, painted by Gunnar Årekol in 1813.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_388-3.jpg?itok=12rL18qi)
![The décor from the Skogasel house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_376-2.jpg?itok=QmBEEr5T)
![Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_372-2.jpg?itok=TVeGC901)
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![Ole Bull's villa, Valestrand](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_324-3.jpg?itok=tRiWSh24)
![Section of the lid of the chest painted around 1830, by Nils Johannesson Tveiterås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_250-_4xy.jpg?itok=CgKmtwUv)