My only full day in the town of Lillehammer was spent, almost exclusively, at the open air museum of Maihaugen. Just like the folk museum from yesterday, the Maihaugen museum was created to preserve historic homes of as many periods as possible. The oldest buildings were first started in the 1200’s and the youngest were built in this century.

It was fascinating to get to see the progression of homes throughout the years. For a few hundred years it seem that the changes were minimal. The changes for the last hundred years seemed to jump in terms of the variation of the items found in the homes in each decade.

After spending around 4 hours at the museum, I had just enough time left in the day to drive north to see the Ringebu stave church.

The day did end on a sad note. As I was walking back from dinner I found out that Queen Elisabeth II had passed away. It’s very weird to think that neither myself nor my parents have known any other English monarch in our lifetimes.