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Osterøy museum. The museum was established in 1920 and is the oldest institution in the museum centre in Hordaland (MuHo). It is an open air museum with buildings and objects linked to the fjord culture in the rural villages east of Bergen, with particular emphasis on local arts and crafts and small industry. In connection with the museum is a cultural walking trail through old cultural landscapes with prehistoric grave mounds and various traces of past and present farming activities.

Osterøy is an island surrounded by fjords and it is known as a miniature of Norway, because of its great variety in landscapes from the sea through valleys and up to the high mountains. The museum has a lot of volunteers helping out with various activities and projects at the museum, wich has given the museum a really strong support from the people in the local community. If you ask anyone on the island about the museum they will most certainly say that Osterøy museum is my museum