Visit a Virtual Medieval Farm

Havrå is a collection of 36 medieval buildings in Western Norway. It is now a living museum which allows visitors to explore a traditional Norwegian cluster farm, a traditional community settlement where multiple individual farms and their houses were built close together.

If you can't visit the Havrå living museum in person you can now explore the farm in virtual reality instead. The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) has created an incredible high-resolution 3D model of the farm using over 12,000 images of Havrå. The 3D model Tunet på Havrå (the farmstead on Havrå) can be explored using your mouse or by using keyboard hotkeys (click on the '?' in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen for navigation instructions).

NIKU has created a number of other virtual models of important Norwegian cultural sites of historical importance. You can find links to the 3D models, which include the Steinvikholm medieval castle and the medieval church of Hedrum, on the NIKU NIRA Gallery.