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The cholera graveyard. Møvik, Fjell

Møvik

14.03.2018 - 20:47

In the winter of 1849 the impoverished Fjell municipality was forced to put money into new burial places at Møvik and Bildøydalen, because of the raging cholera epidemic. On 28 March the municipal council decided on a resolution “to apply to His Majesty the King most subserviently to be granted a loan of 500 Speciedaler …”

The medieval house at Huse

Huse

27.05.2018 - 15:22

The farm Huse is situated on a broad terrace in the valley above the church and the commons ground in Kinsarvik. Huse is one of the largest farms in Kinsarvik. The house from the Middle Ages, still standing at Huse today, probably from the middle of 1200, is joined on to a house in the Swiss style from around 1890. This house, with a smoke-vent in the roof, bears witness of a grand old farm and of the chieftain’s power in early medieval times.

The decorations in the house from Li

Li

12.06.2018 - 20:04

A “chest piece” from Bu museum.

Bu

29.04.2018 - 11:23

The chest from Sekse, painted by Gunnar Årekol in 1813.

Årekol

27.05.2018 - 15:30

Rosemåling

Frette

06.03.2019 - 15:48