Visiting address: Ullandhaugveien 165
Postal address: Postboks 478, N-4002 Stavanger
E-mail: jernaldergarden@ark.museum.no
Tel: +47 51 83 26 00

 
 
 

Opening hours:

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Open every Sunday
11 a.m. - 4 p.m. From 23 May until 26 September

Open every day from June 21th to August 13th

Guided tours can be booked outside ordinary opening hours between 16 April and 30 September.

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Sunday programme, starting on 23 May 2010
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Every sunday
Throughout the summer we arrange a variety of exciting activities at the Iron Age Farm. You can spin thread on a spindle, make fire with steel and flint, bake bread on a flat stone (hellebrød), play in the play house, follow a trail, plait a friendship bracelet, and much more.

Weekend 18–20 June: Viking market
Three days of non-stop Viking activities. We are ‘invaded’ by a horde of Vikings who make and sell their own products. Viking battles, archery, Viking horses, blacksmiths, craftsmen and much, much more! Separate programme to be issued later.

Week 25, 21–27 June: Role-playing
13:00: Sign up for a different kind of guided tour where the whole family can take part in historical developments. In Norwegian only. Max. 20 persons.

Week 26: Play time
28 June–4 July: Make farms with people and animals using cones, branches, twigs, leaves etc! Weave a willow fish–Wednesday, 30 June, Thursday, 1 July and Friday, 2 July. Sunday, 4 July: Archaeologist Grete Lillehammer talks about children in prehistoric times.

Week 27, 5 –11 July Fire and flames
Can you make a fire the way people did in the Iron Age?
If not, this is your chance to learn!
Sunday, 11 July: 13:00 Story time with Marianne Stenerud

Week 28, 12–18 July: Make a lucky amulet pouch of leather

Week 19, 19–25 July: We celebrate summer
Make your own butter and enjoy it on warm, freshly made hellebrød (bread baked on a flat stone)

Week 30: Culinary feast at the Farm

26 July–1 August: All week: Make use of this opportunity to sample a number of prehistoric delicacies.
Sunday, 1 August: 12:00 and 13:00 Archaeologist Olle Hemdorff talks about food in prehistoric times.

Week 31, 2–8 August: Make a magic runic amulet of tin

Week 32, 9–15 August: Make a bracelet using the knotting technique

Sunday, 22 August: Make a magic runic amulet of tin

Sunday, 29 August: Make a herb scent bag Sample tea made of herbs that were available in prehistoric times.

Sunday, 5 September: Make a bracelet using the knotting technique

Sunday, 12 September: Plant dyeing with Emily Halvorsen

Sunday, 19 September: Make a magic runic amulet of tin

Sunday, 26 September: Follow the food trail at Ullandhaug
Separate programme to be issued later