Hanseatisk Museum

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Hanseatisk museum

Hanseatisk museum is one of the conserved wooden buildings on Bryggen in Bergen, Norway, which covers the Hanseatic times. The building was put up after a fire in 1702 when most of Bergen's centre burned down.

The museum was started in the merchant J.W. Olsen's farms in 1872. As the collection increased another building was constructed, "Murtasken", from a drawing by the architect V.D. Lippes. There is an authentic trading room in the museum including a merchant's office, sleeping places for boys and a guestroom. A little way away is the Schøttstuene^[1], for which the museum is also responsible. It was forbidden to use fire in the other buildings and so all the cooking of food took place here. All the items in the museum are original and have been collected from various farms on Bryggen by Johan Wilhelm Wiberg. His son, Christian Koren Wiberg (1870–1945) built up the museum which became the responsibility of the Bergen district in 1916.