Steigen Folk Museum
On idyllic Engeløya , straight down the avenue from Steigen vicarage, you will find Steigen Folk Museum .
Here you can experience how people in Steigen has lived and made a living since the late 1800s. The museum with its lush perennial beds, it is nestled in a sheltered position surrounded by trees and enjoys lovely sunshine in the summer. Here you can enjoy coffee and cake, play old-fashioned games and take a tour of all the houses in the yard, not least you can pay the doctor a visit at the doctor's office.
The exhibition
Our guides are happy to take you on a tour of all the houses in the village garden.
In the main house, Breidablikk, the old Doctor's Farm, you can visit the doctor's office, where you can learn about the working conditions of the district doctor at the turn of the last century. The living rooms in the doctor's farm are furnished as they might have looked in the doctor's family around 1900. In one of them, the doctor's wife has set up a small café, where you can enjoy homemade cakes, waffles and møsbrømlefser in atmospheric surroundings.
On the second floor you can see lingerie and fine handicrafts from our own collection, often supplemented by changing exhibitions. This year, a comprehensive knitting exhibition "A red thread - Norwegian knitting traditions" is on display.
In Fridastua, a fully furnished farmhouse from around the 1900s, you can feel how most people lived over 100 years ago, with low ceilings, short beds and steep stairs.
The forge is fully equipped with all the tools a blacksmith could need. You can still smell the fire from the forge, and imagine the high temperatures and hard work the blacksmith endured.
The last stop is the old hardware store. Here are shelves full of coffee beans and jam jars, graters and shoe polish, ATA detergent and rolled leaf tobacco, while on the floor is the spittoon.
Address and contact
Prestegårdsveien 12, 8289 Engeløya
Car
Exit the E6 at Tømmerneset and drive through the Steigentunnelen. It is approximately 50 km to Engeløybrua. On the island, turn left and drive 8 km to Laskestad. In front of the Presbytery on the left, the road goes down to the village garden.
Speedboat
The nearest stop for the express boat from Bodø is Bogøy.
Engeløya is a great destination for cycling trips.
Contact us
E-mail: post@nordlandsmuseet.no
Tel: 75 50 35 00
Opening hours and ticket prices
Opening hours summer season 2026:
June 22 - August 16: Tuesday-Sunday 11 am-5 pm. Guided tour every hour.
We offer guided tours by appointment all year round.
Ticket prices
Adults 90 NOK
Students and seniors 70 NOK
Children and young people under 18: free
Groups (10+) 70 NOK per person.
Availability
Toilet
Free parking
Doktorfruens café is open during the summer season.
The houses are difficult to access for people with disabilities, there are stairs to most houses. The main entrance has a handrail.
Booking
Would you like to book a tour at Steigen Folk Museum Please contact us in good time. Fill out the form by clicking the button below for booking inquiries and practical clarifications.
History of the museum
Steigen Folk Museum is built around the old Doctor's House. Here, within walking distance of the Presbytery, a stately doctor's residence was built in 1877 for the district doctor in the old Steigen and Hamarøy municipality.
100 years later, it took Steigen The Farmers' Women's Association took the initiative to establish a local museum. The Doctor's Farm was designated as the main building for the new museum. Eventually, a homestead, an old shop and a forge were moved to the yard and the women from the Farmers' Women's Association went around the entire municipality to collect objects from fishing and farming households, furniture and interiors from sheriff's and merchant families, as well as medical equipment to recreate a contemporary and living environment in the Doctor's Farm and the other houses. A larger outbuilding had to be built to take care of the large agricultural tools that eventually came into being.
The youngest grant on Steigen Folk Museum is the garden. In the year 2000, started Steigen Gardening a project to take care of old perennials from Steigen vicarage garden. The traditional perennials were planted in round beds with sand paths around them, as had once been the case at the vicarage. The perennial beds have become an extensive collection of older perennials. The garden at Steigen Folk Museum Today it functions as a hedge garden for the traditional garden at the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden.