In the 1800s Bergen was Europe\u2019s biggest wooden city, a distinctive city environment with closely spaced wooden buildings, busy streets, markets and alleys. How did it look? What did people talk about?<\/p>\n
In Old Bergen, the whole family can experience life in the “old days”.<\/span><\/span> Here you can stroll and look in the houses, feed the birds, climb the trees and, not least, visit the Civil Servant\u00b4s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0family in 1826 and the Merchant’s family in 1886. On the square, short plays are played throughout the day, and in between it all the children can join in the fun and games.<\/span><\/span> Tickets, gifts, card, ice cream and soft drinks are sold in the museumshop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n At old Bergen open air museum you can experience some of this atmosphere, with houses from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Actors makes history come alive. In the cobbled streets of the Old Bergen Museum, you are welcome to come into the houses and explore on your own, or maybe have a chat with one of the people who “live” here? In close proximity to the city center and scenic surroundings, you can meet both lords and servants from times gone by. You can peek in through the windows, enter the houses to look at exhibitions and historic interiors. Inside the house you will find information with brief information about the history of the houses. The museum\u2019s actors brings the site to life and provide answers to some of the questions on how life could have been lived in Bergen one or two hundred years ago.<\/p>\nThe Living Museum<\/h2>\n
\nWhat did it look like? What did people talk about?<\/p>\n