Gamle Bergen Museum - Bymuseet i Bergen
Open-air museum of rescued wooden town houses set around an old summer estate and English-style park.
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This guide to Gamle Bergen Museum in Bergen leaves the rescued wooden streets aside and turns to the grounds they stand in: the Elsesro summer estate of the Rolfsen shipbuilding family, from the seventeen-eighties onward. It follows a husband, a wife's name, and a son with a taste for English garden fashion. Best heard at the edge of the ponds, where the ducks and geese gather.
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