Asker Museum

In Fusdallåven you'll find Café Gunhild, museum shop, exhibition hall and administration.

The museum also has a lush, baroque-inspired garden with animal sculptures by Anne Grimdalen, a large and diverse collection of houses and objects, and both permanent and changing exhibitions.

In addition, we organize a number of events throughout the year; such as museum day, Thanksgiving, Christmas market, concerts and lectures.

The chapel from Breim - stop on the Pilgrimsleden

One of the old storehouses from around 1600 at Asker Museum is also a chapel. Inside there is an altar and a crucifix.

The chapel was built around 1597, and originally stood on the farm of Øvreset in Breim in Nordfjord. The pilgrim trail from Bergen to Trondheim passed here, and pilgrims stopped in the chapel to pray for a safe journey over the mountain.

The fact that the chapel was built around 60 years after the Reformation indicates that the Norwegian people were not finished with Catholicism, even after Christian III of Denmark-Norway decided that Catholicism was to be abolished.

The story of the chapel's connection to the museum begins in the 1620s, when it was consecrated, and then moved from Øvreset in Breim to the farm Sårheim and used as a storehouse. In 1944, the antique dealer Ingrid Kittelsen Treider bought the chapel, took it apart and moved it to Lysaker. Otto Valstad found it there in 1946. He put it together again and repaired it here at Øvre Valstad. He made the inside into a chapel again but kept the outside in the shape of a traditional storehouse. The beautiful staircase was built in 2011.