The Bjørgan parsonage () is a museum and former

parsonage A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, pa ...

for

Kvikne Church Kvikne Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nord-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kvikne. It is the church for the Kvikne parish which is part of the Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti (dea ...

in Kvikne in the northern part of

Tynset Municipality Tynset is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tynset (town), ...

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. It is where the writer

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...

(1832–1910) was born and lived during his early childhood, from 1832 to 1837, while his father was the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...

priest at Kvikne (1831–1837). The house was built in 1780 and it was used as a parsonage until 1860. In 1917, the teacher

Tilla Valstad Mathilde Georgine "Tilla" Valstad (30 July 1871 – 5 August 1957) was a Norwegian teacher, novelist and journalist. Biography Tilla Valstad was born at Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway. She was the daughter of ship owner Johan Henrik Christ ...

discovered that the main building was going to be demolished. She started a collection with the goal of making the place into a museum for Bjørnson, and in 1919 the farm was transferred to the state as a gift. In 1932, a memorial to Bjørnson was unveiled at Bjørgan, and the old building contains many items from Bjørnson's time. Until 2006, the museum was part of the Sandvig Collections at

Maihaugen Maihaugen (''De Sandvigske Samlinger på Maihaugen, Lillehammer'') is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Lillehammer, Norway. Maihaugen, with close to 200 buildings, is one of Northern Europe's largest open-air museums and one of the l ...

, which is also responsible for the

Aulestad Aulestad is a farm and writer's house museum in Follebu in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located along County Road Fv255 (''Bjørnsonvegen'') between Vinstra and Hovemoen. The farm is best known as the former residence of Karoline Bjørnson, ...

farm and museum. The Bjørgan parsonage is now part of the North Østerdalen Museum. The house was restored in 2010. Some believe that the short time he spent at Bjørgan was of formative significance for Bjørnson and left its mark on his peasant tales (). Bjørnstjerne was a guest at Kvikne twice as an adult, in 1869 and in 1897.

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North Østerdalen Museum: Bjørgan, Kvikne
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