Bjørgan parsonage

The Bjørgan parsonage (Norwegian: Bjørgan prestegård) is a museum and former parsonage in Kvikne in the northern part of the municipality of Tynset in Innlandet county, Norway.

[1] It is where the writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) was born and lived during his early childhood, from 1832 to 1837, while his father was the parish priest at Kvikne (1831–1837).

In 1917, the teacher Tilla Valstad discovered that the main building was going to be demolished.

She started a collection with the goal of making the place into a museum for Bjørnson, and in 1919 the farm was transferred to the state as a gift.

[5] Some believe that the short time he spent at Bjørgan was of formative significance for Bjørnson and left its mark on his peasant tales (Norwegian: bondefortellinger).