Garmo Stave Church

Garmo Stave Church

While passing Garmo on our way from Lom to Ornes I saw the new Garmo church built on the site of the old stavkirke which is now located in Maihaugvegen open air museum. We were planning to see it but ...

Beautiful - and slightly scary

A very beautiful example of a Norwegian wooden church. The area has an almost medieval vibe to it. Unfortunately, the church was locked, so it was impossible to have a look inside.

Must see!

We saw this while on tour of the open air museum and so received a lot of information. None of the items inside the church are original except the baptismal font. The other items, alter etc. are fro...

Stavkirke with a long story

Visited this stave church as part of our visit to Open air museum. The guide explained how the church is build on 8 massive poles/staves, hence the name stave church. Obviously the entire church is ha...

Free to visit outside museum opening hours

Worth noting that if like us you just want to see the church and not museum/s, you can do so outside museum opening hours. Otherwise as we found, you must pay for a full museum visit - which we had no...