Steigen Folk Museum
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Steigen Folk Museum is located on Engeløya , straight down the avenue from Steigen vicarage. Here you can experience how people in Steigen has lived and worked since the late 1800s.
the Folk Museum is surrounded by trees, with perennial beds in the yard and sun for much of the summer day. You can drink coffee and eat cake, try old-fashioned toys, go into all the houses in the yard — and pay the doctor a visit at the doctor's office.
In the main house, Breidablikk, the old Doctor's Farm, you can see the doctor's office and get to know the working conditions of the district doctor around the year 1900. The living rooms are furnished as they would have been in the doctor's family's home. In one of the living rooms, the doctor's wife has set up a small café, where you can eat homemade cakes, waffles and møsbrømlefser.
On the second floor you can see lingerie and handicraft products from the collection, often supplemented by changing exhibitions.
In Fridastua, a farmhouse from around 1900, you can get a sense of how most people lived over 100 years ago. The ceiling is low, the beds are short, and the stairs are steep.
The forge is equipped with the tools the blacksmith used. You can still smell the fire from the forge and see where the blacksmith stood working in the heat.
The last stop is the old hardware store. The shelves are full of coffee beans, jam jars, graters, shoe polish, ATA detergent and rolled leaf tobacco. On the floor is the spittoon tray.
Photo: Øyvind Wold
Opening hours
Steigen Folk Museum has been open during the summer season 2026 and will reopen with regular opening hours in the summer of 2027. More information will be available in the spring.
Would you like to visit us in the meantime? You can book a tour even though we don't have fixed opening hours now — read more here .
Practical information
Entrance tickets are purchased upon arrival. The tour itself takes about 45 minutes, but we recommend staying in the area longer. The nature around the farm is magnificent and only 12 km away you will find Batterie Dietl.
Prices
Adults NOK 90, students/honors NOK 70.
Children under 18 have free entry.
Groups (min. 10 paying) NOK 70 per person.
Special prices apply for visits outside of regular opening hours.
Facilities
Doktorfruens café is open during the summer season. Free parking. Toilet. The houses are difficult to access for people with disabilities, stairs to most houses. The main entrance has a handrail.
Address and directions
Prestegård sveien 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 rectory on the left the road goes down to the Folk Museum .
Speedboat
The nearest stop for the express boat from Bodø is Bogøy.
Engeløya is a great destination for cycling trips.
Photo: Øyvind Wold
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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. The building was built in 1877 as a residence for the district doctor in the old Steigen and Hamarøy municipality , within walking distance of the Rectory.
100 years later, it took Steigen The Farmers' Women's Association took the initiative to establish a local museum. The Doctor's House became the main building for the museum. Eventually, a farmhouse, an old shop and a forge were moved to the yard. The women from the Farmers' Women's Association traveled throughout the municipality and collected objects from fishermen's and farmers' households, furniture and interiors from sheriff's and merchant families, and medical equipment — all to recreate a contemporary environment in the Doctor's House and the other houses. A larger outbuilding was built to store the agricultural tools that eventually came into use.
The garden is the youngest addition to the Steigen Folk Museum . In the year 2000, started Steigen Gardening a project to take care of old perennials from Steigen The perennials were planted in round beds with sand paths around them, as had once been the case at the Vicarage. The beds today contain an extensive collection of older perennials. The garden at Steigen Folk Museum functions as a hedge garden for the traditional garden at the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden.
