The Norwegian Prison Museum is located in the laboratory building at Kongsvinger Fortress. Here you will find the largest collection from Norwegian prison history in the form of thousands of objects, pictures, prisoner works and historical documents and stories dating back to the 1700s.
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The prison museum is small and intimate and is open Thursday-Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer season.
Enjoy the sight of the glassblowers at the glassworks! This is magic with sand and fire - the world's most exciting handicraft! Magnor Glassworks is a fantastic experience for the whole family, and is also one of Innlandet’s biggest tourist attraction. Magnor was founded in 1896, and several generations have shaped its history.
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Kongsvinger Fortress has a unique history. The fortress was erected in 1681 and has been of a great importance all the way up to 2009. Today you might experience the historic fortress through a museum, a restaurant, and a hotel. The majestic Kongsvinger fortress offers a fantastic panoramic view over the river Glomma. The fortress has never been conquered or seized yet been of an important strategic importance for the defence of Southern Norway.
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The eldest part of Kongsvinger consists of huge officers' quarters and smaller housing for the soldiers fra the 17- and 1800's. The district grew up by Kongsvinger Fortress and were the childhood streets of the painter Erik Werenskiold who grew up here as a son of commander Fredrik Werenskiold in the end of the 1800's.
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The Women's Museum in Norway, Kvinnemuseet, is located in a beautiful villa in Swiss style, dating from 1857. It is in the vicinity of the 17th century fortress and the well conserved wooden buildings of Øvrebyen, the oldest part of Kongsvinger town.
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Odalstunet has collected buildings and artefacts from all over Odalen since the museum was founded just after World War II. The buildings constitute a large farmhouse with both farmhouses, farmhouses and many outbuildings. At a safe distance from the other houses is the kjona and the smithy. In the forest we find the homestead and just beyond is the logger's hut. The museum area itself is open all year round, although the buildings are only open during events.
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Negarden 1897 is beautifully situated in a large English garden in the middle of the village Flisa. Here you are whitin a short distance to different kinds of shopping possibilities and other attractions. They are open all year around, and offers accommodation in a historic environment. They cooperate with local farms and can offer delicious homemade meals based on local products.
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Åsta Holth was a well-known Norwegian author who wrote several novels about her people, the Forest Finns who immigrated to Finnskogen. Experience Leiråker and Finnskoghagen, a comprehensive further development of the garden at Åsta Holth's small farm.Through the Norwegian Forest Finnish Museum you can experience Finnetunet at Svullrya, Gruetunet Museum at Kirkenær, Orala at Austmarka, Austmarka Bygdetun in Austmarka, Tyskberget Finnegard in Åsnes-Finnskog and Faldaasen school in Åsnes Finnskog.
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When Levi Henriksen broke through as a writer, he also became known for his writing room in "Elvis Presley Boulevard", a joking name for a small road stump on Granli, on the outskirts of Kongsvinger. "Elvis Presley Boulevard" is an exhibition of Levi Henriksen's writing and writing environment, but also an actual writing room.
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Get to know the region's multifaceted history! The name Anno Museum Kongsvinger region is a collective name for several museums in the Kongsvinger region. The department consists of Kongsvinger Museum, Women's Museum, Odalstunet and Eidskog Museum.In the summer of 2021, the museum's new exhibition "Homeland" opened - it is about the artist Erik Werenskiold and Kongsvinger town in the period 1855 – 1905.
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