Kirsten Flagstad Museum

The museum is in a wooden house called Strandstuen, located at Kirkebakken 11, Hamar, Norway, close to the ruins of Hamar Cathedral.

This history of the house dates back to at least 1840, when Kirsten Flagstad's great-grandfather settled there.

Flagstad didn't grow up in Hamar, but she remained proud of her roots and referred to Hamar as "my town": "Jeg sier alltid at jeg er fra Hamar – jeg er så stolt av det, jeg føler fremdeles slik at Hamar er min by!"

The old workshop of a blacksmith, next to the museum is now the office, together with a small concert hall and the archives.

[3] The house is open to visitors during the summer season, but can also be visited by appointment the rest of the year, and is used as a resource center for students, teachers and researchers.

Kirsten Flagstad Museum in Hamar, Norway
Flagstad’s costume for Hollywood's The Big Broadcast of 1938 , when she was filmed singing Brünnhilde's Battle Cry from Wagner's Die Walküre . (Collection of the Kirsten Flagstad Museum)
Costume jewellery worn by Kirsten Flagstad as Queen Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in the early 1950s. (Collection of the Kirsten Flagstad Museum)