Hamarøy Folk Museum

A red traditional Swedish staff shed, with white window frames and stairs, standing on a green lawn under a blue sky with some clouds.

The old trading farm Breidablikk has been an important meeting place in the village since 1845. In 1980, Breidablikk became Hamarøy Folk Museum .

At Handelsgården Breidablikk you will find the farmhouse, a converted Nordland house from 1860, with a beautiful Northern Norwegian garden, Kapellangården, Kramboden Antikvariat, barn with attached barn, mortuary, drying house and loft for bedclothes and a storehouse.

The Hamsun Centre sometimes invites to literary banquets in the old living rooms of the farmhouse, and the pub "Teodor med brokk" in the bar room. The trading house is also used in connection with school outreach.

Address

Vestfjordveien 1595, 8294 Hamarøy

A bright green house with a porch and many windows, surrounded by green plants and trees, under a clear blue sky.

History of the museum

Breidablikk is an old trading farm from the mid-19th century. The farm has a history dating back to the Iron Age, but most of the houses that stand there today were built when a trader named Jens Pedersen took over the farm around 1845 and started trading in the farm's storehouse.

The trade developed rapidly throughout the 19th century to become an extensive business that included, among other things, its own shipping company, clothing and bakery. In connection with the barn, the merchant built a courthouse; a meeting room where local matters, court hearings, were held. The trade lasted until 1963, when the business was moved to where the Spar store is located today. The merchant family lived in the main house until the late 1960s, when the house was eventually rented out for residential purposes. In the 1970s, an initiative was taken to turn the facility into a museum, and Hamarøy Folk Museum was opened as a museum in 1980.