Nordvika gamle handelssted

About the museum

Nordvika trading post lies between high mountains on the island of Dønna, a ferry trip from Sandnessjøen. From here, sailing-boat transport (jektefart) to Bergen was run, and the site has been an inn and school, post office, national telephone station and steamship quay. At its heyday in the 1880s there were sixteen buildings here, and today four remain.

Here visitors can become acquainted with the old Northern Norwegian trading culture. In summer there are exhibitions, a general store and coffee in a parlour (stue) whose wallpaper is decorated with real gold. The trading post lies 1.5 km north of Solfjellsjøen and is one of the especially valuable cultural landscape areas in Nordland.

The museum's collections include four diaries, called jekteprotokoller (sailing-boat logs), which Hans Martinius Zahl, the last Zahl at Nordvika, wrote on his voyages to Lofoten and Bergen in 1846–50. They have been digitised and transcribed. Nordvika is a branch of Helgeland Museum.

Highlights

• Four preserved buildings from a trading post that once had sixteen
• General store and parlour with gold-decorated wallpaper
• Sailing-boat logs (jekteprotokoller) from 1846–1850
• Cultural landscape of particular value

Permanent exhibition

• Handelsstedet Nordvika – Exhibitions and general store in the preserved buildings of the trading post.

Operated by

Helgeland Museum

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The trading post lies on the island of Dønna, a ferry trip from Sandnessjøen, 1.5 km north of Solfjellsjøen.

Amenities & dining

• Café
• Museum shop

Coffee in the parlour and sales in the general store during the summer season.

Events & venue rental

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