{"id":1690,"date":"2021-06-08T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bymuseet.mementor.no\/museum\/damsgard-country-mansion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:52:54","slug":"damsgard-country-mansion","status":"publish","type":"museum","link":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/museum\/damsgard-country-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Damsg\u00e5rd Country Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The museum is closed in 2025\/2026 due to restoration work.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We are very happy to present this beautiful classical summer house to our visitors. In the 1700s, Bergen was a large, busy and rich city. The city\u2019s upper classes adopted trends from the continent and established elaborate, aristocratic homes in the countryside. By 1800 one would find around 70 of these summer houses in the countryside surrounding Bergen, and Damsg\u00e5rd was the most stunning.<\/p>\n

Damsg\u00e5rd Country Mansion, as it appears today, was built in the 1770s for General War Commissioner and General Customs Manager Joachim Christian Geelmuyden (1730-1795). Geelmuyden was knighted in 1783, and took the name Gyldenkrantz. The house he built at Damsg\u00e5rd is still considered to be a masterpiece of Rococco architecture in wood in Norway, and it is perhaps Europe\u2019s most authentic wooden building from that period.<\/p>\n

In 1796 the property was sold to the royal supplier Herman Didrich Janson (1757 – 1822). The Janson family remained at Damsg\u00e5rd until 1983, and for many years the estate was as well known as Jansong\u00e5rden. The Norwegian state and Bergen Kommune entered the picture in 1983 and purchased Damsg\u00e5rd Hovedg\u00e5rd in order to preserve it as a piece of cultural heritage. From 1983 until 1993 the best resources were used to restore, protect and conserve the whole area. Today the building and its surrounds presents\u00a0itself as a unique example of a Bergen summer house from the 1700s or 1800s.<\/p>\n

At Damsg\u00e5rd you can join a tour which takes you through the building\u2019s exterior and its rooms in order to discover the property\u2019s history. Or you can concentrate on the garden exhibitions, featuring both the Lord\u2019s and the Lady\u2019s gardens. The gardens are recreated as they could have been in the 1780s and the form, content and operation of the two are well worth attention.<\/p>\n

\"Damsg\u00e5rd<\/h4>\n

During a visit you can enjoy the view of the gazebo outside and visit the wonderful gardens. In the garden exhibition in the Lady and Lord’s gardens, respectively, there is much that pleases both the eyes and other senses. The gardens have been recreated as they may have been in the 1780s and both the form, content and operation of the two gardens are well worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n

Damsg\u00e5rd Country Mansion recreated garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

The garden was recreated in the 1980s as it may have been in the 1780s both in form and content. The garden exhibition shows the formal Lord’s garden with 18th century ornamental plants, roses, herbs and vegetables and the lady’s garden with karussdam and willow pond.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Damsg\u00e5rd Country Mansion with his Lady and Lord’s garden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The little Manor House” – pleasure garden and landmark in Laksev\u00e5g, Bergen.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1572,"template":"","class_list":["post-1690","museum","type-museum","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/museum"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22516,"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museum\/1690\/revisions\/22516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymuseet.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}