Rygge museum

About the museum

Rygge museum came into being in the early 1990s. Cultural director Gerd Kolstad had worked for a museum in Rygge and got help to renovate the old Fylkesskolen (county school) by Rygge church, a building from 1914. In spring 1992 a volunteer effort was started to complete the work, and it was decided to make a museum based on what was special to the municipality: the cultural landscape, which was a model area in the Nordic Council of Ministers' project “Nature and Cultural Landscape in Land-Use Planning”.

The museum shows an exhibition on the cultural landscape on the ground floor and several exhibitions on the mezzanine. The museum has four buildings in all. In a storehouse (stabbur) on the main site, Rygge defence association has created an extensive permanent exhibition on the history of Norway's defence. On the other side of the road lies a smithy from 1863, which was run by the Solberg family until the 1980s before it was moved to the museum, and the Tollefsrød storehouse.

In 2014 Rygge museum and Rygge Historielag merged into Rygge museum og historielag, a voluntary association that runs the museum and the farmyard with its historic buildings.

Highlights

• Cultural landscape exhibition in the old school building from 1914
• Defence museum in the storehouse with an exhibition on Norway's defence history
• Smithy from 1863 and the Tollefsrød storehouse
• Free admission, coffee and waffles

Operated by

Rygge museum og historielag

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

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Amenities & dining

• Café
• Museum shop

Coffee, tea and waffles are served. The museum sells, among other things, a hiking route guide, the yearbook Ryggiof and the local history book (bygdebok) for Rygge.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent

Rooms can be rented; see the website.