Herøy Museum

On Wednesday, the 25th of November 2015 - our third day in Helgeland - we took the ferry to Dønna island. This is a small island with approximately 1.500 inhabitants. Our tour guide picked us up and we drove 45 minutes to the Herøy Church. After visiting the church, we went to the Herøy museum. First of all, we were greeted with fresh backed rolls and beverages, with which we were very pleased. Unfortunately, the weather was not very good that day. Even more, we enjoyed the lunch in the museum. We all felt immediately very comfortable in the museum, because of the lunch directly in the musuem. We ate in the old kitchen, in which were still objects from earlier. Afterwards, our tour guide led us through the whole museum. We saw an old living room, workroom, educational room, bed room, a room with a lot of old clothes, a room with old books, wedding and family pictures etc. In this museum, a lot of old things were obtained, such as:

a record player:

a sewing machine:

a loom:

a spinning wheel:

I was very impressed of the museum. Because of all the small rooms, it seems huge. In the museum are many old treasures hidden, which the young generation barely don’t know nowadays. Because of this museum, I felt demoted back many years ago. I like this kind of museum because one can imagine how people lived at that time. It is very important to obtain museums like this. It is increasingly difficult, for younger generations, to imagine how the people lived many years ago. For this reasons, museums such as the Herøy museum, have to be obtained.