The Sunnmøre Museum is a beautiful ethnographic museum located 4 kilometres from the Ålesund city in 120 hectares of beautiful parkland. The open-air museum, founded in 1931, features about 50 historical buildings, reflecting different periods of the city's existence, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century.
What attracts visitors most of all is the collection of Viking boats, which at the time served as a means of survival. They were used for fishing and also for transporting goods, people and animals. A walk through the museum will allow you to see churches, models of wooden houses and outbuildings, farmhouses and fishermen's huts from different parts of Norway.
The main building, set in beautiful surroundings, hosts interesting archaeological and cultural exhibitions about the life of the people who have inhabited the region since ancient times.
The museum is only open to the public in the summer.
