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“Standing girl”, 1908, bronze.

Øystese- Ingebrigt Vik museum

29.03.2018 - 22:58

Dyrskard with the restored construction hut.

Dyrskard

27.05.2018 - 15:07

Right from the start the road across Haukelifjell was a road from “fjord to fjord”, from the bottom of Sørfjorden to Dalen in Telemark. The connection between Røldal-Haukelifjell was considered so important by Stortinget (Parliament) that the road construction Odda-Dalen was approved already in 1853.

Ringedalsfossen innermost in Skjeggedalen

Skjeggedal

29.03.2018 - 19:01

Reisete

Reisete

19.05.2018 - 13:27

Ålmerket

29.03.2018 - 22:59

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

Årekol

27.05.2018 - 15:30

Os station

Os station

16.06.2018 - 16:01

The cairn at Nybunut

Hardangervidda – Crossing the Uplands

15.05.2018 - 14:48

Slepa, the ancient “drove roads” across the plateau, date back to prehistoric times. Through the centuries cattle have been driven to the markets in the east; the people of Hardanger went on their trading journeys with tallow and salt to the mining town and silver mines of Kongsberg, and soldiers and other travellers also used these roads.

Farmers from the fjords should not travel unshaven on the train.

Farmers from the Fjords

15.05.2018 - 14:39

Eitt av dei store samferdsleprosjekta på Vestlandet mot slutten av 1800-talet var opninga av Nesttun-Osbanen i 1894 – ei oppbløming av lokalhandel, turisttrafikk og «landliggere».

Fiddler Knut Hamre from Granvin

Folk Music and the Hardanger Fiddle

15.05.2018 - 14:52

It is in Hordaland County that we find the oldest traces of a folk music stemming from our national instrument, the Hardanger fiddle. And it is still this musical tradition which is characteristic of folk music here.

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