neonbubble, 
My #MidweekMuseum today is the Norsk Folkemuseum (or Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. It's an open-air museum housing dozens of historical buildings relocated to this area for preservation, and home of the Gol Stave Church (circa 1200 CE), one of three stave churches we've now visited in Norway when travelling. Who doesn't love a stave church?
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Interior of a medieval, wooden church, in the altar area. It's a windowless environment and the walls leading to the altar and curving around behind it are highly decorated with religious motifs and imagery from the bible. A small altar holds two candles to the bottom right of view.
An old building; probably a grain store as it's a wooden building raised up from the ground on a smaller wooden-timbered base. The building is approximately cube-shaped with a shallow, peaked roof, and from our angle on the ground looking slightly up at it we can just see tufts of grass peeking over the roof edges. The wood is dark, almost taking on a burnt look, and likely indicating treatment it's received over the years to protect it from the elements. Very small windows are set in the front face; five lower down, then two above, and all about the size of a head.
A field of tall grass dotted with wildflowers stretches across a short distance to a grouping of half a dozen old houses constructed on wooden beams and all with shallow roofs topped with grass. No two buildings are the same, with each adjacent building either lower or longer or squatter than its neighbours. Beyond the buildings some tall trees form a border under a grey, moody sky.
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