Hvalstad
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Hvalstad is a village and a small part of the Municipality Asker. Hvalstad has got a little more than 2000 inhabitants. This number has doubled since the seventies. Hvalstad is located 20 kilometres from the centre of Oslo.
Hvalstad Station is on Drammenbanen (the Oslo-Drammen Railway line) opened on October 7, 1872.
[edit] Asker Museum
Asker Museum is located in Hvalstad. The Museum primarily shows the audience art of many kinds. It's a source to knowledge, understanding and inspiration. This Museum was the home of Otto and Tilla Valstad. They are related to the family that Hvalstad got its name from. When they died at the of the forties they gave their properties including their house to the Municipality of Asker and in this way it became a museum.
[edit] Hvalstad school
The school in Hvalstad is relatively new; its construction was finished in 1999. Hvalstad School has a basket court and a gravel football pitch.
[edit] Notable residents
Hvalstad was the adult home of Norwegian author Johan Bojer, born Johan Christoffer Hansen in Orkanger in 1872, Sør-Trøndelag, and raised in Rissa, Sør-Trøndelag. He published many novels in Norwegian and English, the most popular being Den siste viking (1921, English translation, The Last of the Vikings, 1923). Bojer died in 1959 in Oppdal while returning by train to Hvalstad from a visit to Rissa.
