
The Sivert Aarflot Museum () is a division of the
Sunnmøre Museum Foundation in
Norway
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.
The museum is named after
Sivert Aarflot (1759–1817),
who among other things started the first rural printing shop in Norway.
The Sivert Aarflot Museum has a permanent exhibition in the museum building at the farm in Ekset in
Volda Municipality
Volda is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre is the Volda (village), village of Volda. Other v ...
, where Sivert Aarflot lived. Among other items, the collection includes printing equipment.
References
External links
Museum homepage
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Museums in Møre og Romsdal
Cultural heritage of Norway
Volda