{"id":1185,"date":"2023-06-26T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceramitage.eu\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:04:12","slug":"telemark-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ceramitage.eu\/en\/telemark-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Telemark Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Telemark Museum is a consolidated museum that operates Henrik Ibsen Museum and Brekkeparken in Skien, Porselensmuseet in Porsgrunn, Ulefos Hovedgaard in Nome and Kittelsenhuset in Krager\u00f8, in addition to DuVerden Vitensenter, which has been established as a separate company. This is a result of the national museum reform that has been underway since 2002. The purpose of the reform is to improve the quality of Norwegian museums by creating fewer but better units. The process for Telemark was completed in 2008. <\/span><\/p>\n

Following the reform, Telemark county has three consolidated museums, of which Telemark Museum is one. The other two are the Norwegian Industrial Labour Museum and the West Telemark Museum. <\/span><\/p>\n

The museum has four departments that have overall responsibility for all museum facilities. The heads of the departments make up the museum’s management team, together with the director.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initiator of the establishment of the Skien Museum was Johan Koren Christie, nephew of diocesan official Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie (1778-1849), president of the Storting from 1814, who also founded the Bergen Museum. On 1 February 1891, Johan Koren Christie sent out an “Invitation to Establish a Museum in Skien” in which he emphasised arguments such as educational purposes, preservation of Telemark’s arts and crafts, and cultivating significance. In other words, Christie wanted the museum to become a cultural institution in the town with an important role in the education of children and young people, and to ensure the quality of handicrafts, arts and crafts. His goal was also that the museum’s collection of mineral deposits could provide fertile ground for new industry. The invitation was sent to 42 leading men in the municipality and county, the judiciary, the clergy, the health service and the private sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

The foundation took place on 22 May 1891 at a meeting attended by 40 of the 42 invitees. The museum’s statute consisted of 15 paragraphs. Skien’s museum was to become something far more than a town museum; it was to encompass the entire county and, ideally, the rest of Norway and abroad as well. The museum did not have its own premises until Skien Town Hall was completed in 1894. The museum moved into the attic, now the third floor. <\/span><\/p>\n

The attic rooms in the town hall were small and gradually became too cramped for the ever-growing collections. Christie, who was now approaching 75, called for a larger museum with an associated “open-air museum” with old buildings from the villages, similar to the cultural-historical museums in Gudbrandsdalen, Valdres and Setesdal. This immediately received support from “all quarters”. In the autumn of 1908, a committee was set up with Gunnar Knudsen (Norwegian Prime Minister 1908-1910), Viggo Ullman (county councillor in Bratsberg) and Haldor B\u00f8rve (architect). <\/span><\/p>

On 26 February 1909, the general meeting of the Tourist Association resolved that the board should continue to work on the museum issue. It was proposed that the existing “Skien Museum” should be combined with a “Skien-Telemarkens Museum”. The committee met on 11 August and carried out inspections of R\u00f8nningen Forest, Roligheten and S\u00f8ndre Brekke – alternative locations for the new museum. S\u00f8ndre Brekke was chosen, as R\u00f8nningen was too far from the town and Roligheten was too small. On 16 September, the purchase was finalised and the new limited company Br\u00e6kke was constituted. The following board was elected: Amtmann Ludvig Christophersen was elected chairman; Chief Justice Blichfeldt became vice-chairman. Wholesaler H. H. Holta, mill owner H.C. Hansen and postmaster Kr. Jahnsen were also members of this new board. Bank cashier Lausen Dahl was appointed secretary, treasurer and accountant. An sum of money was left to the Telemark Museum for use in connection with the establishment.<\/span><\/p>

On 12 October 1909, the entire county committee met, together with the board of A\/S Br\u00e6kke, the chairman of Skien Museum and Anders Sandvig from Lillehammer. Sandvig was called in as an expert to inspect the site and draw up plans. The laws for the museum were adopted and the name was decided to be “Telemarkens og Skiensfjordens Museum”. It was also decided that the working committee would act as a board until a new board could be elected by the next county council. In 1998, the name was changed to Telemark Museum. Today, Brekkeparken houses several old living rooms and buildings from various places in Telemark that have been moved from their original location and transported to the park.<\/span><\/p>

In 2021, the museum’s new building, VEV, was completed. It houses offices, an exhibition area of approx. 900 m2, as well as a caf\u00e9, meeting rooms, an auditorium and a museum shop. <\/span><\/p>\n

Telemark Museum manages around 80 antiquarian buildings, 20 of which are listed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The museum’s collections contain of approximately 112,500 objects, around 2.6 million photographs and around 1,600 shelf metres of private archives, in addition to large book collections.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work of uploading objects, photos and archives on the Digital Museum and the Archive Portal is ongoing. Telemark University College also scans archives for us through the Telemarkskilder project. Around 43,000 photos and artefacts are searchable online.<\/span><\/p>\n

The museum’s archives are housed in \u00d8vregate 39, with public rooms and a reading room.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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