Bjørklund gård

About the museum

In 1869 the road worker Jon Pedersen Fætten came to Pasvik from Folldal in Nord-Østerdalen. Two years later he bought a property at Svanvik that was given the name Bjørklund, after the birch forest surrounding the fields. Fætten was part of the first Norwegian wave of incomers to the Pasvik valley, and several others from Folldal found their way to Svanvik at the same time.

Bjørklund is a typical Norwegian farm, with farm buildings common in Nord-Østerdalen. Both the houses and the farmyard follow the Norwegian building tradition, but elements of Kven culture can also be seen. The farm was in use until the 1960s.

The old house (Gammelstua) dates from the land-clearing period in the 1870s, the storehouse (stabburet) came in the following decade, the new house (nystua) in 1906 and the cowshed in the 1930s. Outside the farmyard there are a stable, a bathhouse (badstu), an earth cellar (jordkjeller), two hay racks (høysjåer) and a swing well (vippebrønn). The farm is today a visitor site under Varanger Museum IKS.

Highlights

• Farmyard from the land-clearing period in the 1870s
• Old house (Gammelstua), storehouse, new house (nystua) and cowshed
• Buildings in the Nord-Østerdal style with Kven influences
• Bathhouse, earth cellar and swing well

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Varanger Museum IKS

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Getting there & parking

Drive up the Pasvik valley to Svanvik and follow the signs from there.

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