Rye farm

Comes from: Rye under the farm Snausen in Leirådalen.
Age: From approx. 1850
To the museum: 1972.

From 1812, Snausagjalet/Snausagjerdet was presumably the home of the farm Snausa in Leirådalen. After 1841 it served as a homestead. In 1897, the space was set aside for private use and bought by the householder Olaus Aagesen Rye. It was he who gave it the name Rye.

In 1972, the building was moved to the folk museum in Stiklestad and has been referred to here as the Husmannsplassen. In 2023, we moved the house from the south side of the Korsådalsbekken to the upper part of the museum area. The reason for this move was unstable ground and a very damp environment around the building. During the process, it has been clearly seen how major changes were made when this mill was moved to the museum. Changes that in the 1970s were seen as natural and sensible, but which we today do not believe are compatible with how we should run a museum. Our goal was, after a thorough assessment, to recreate Rye to what it was when we moved here in 1972.

The roof angle is steeper again, as it must be when we have replaced the turf roof with a shingle roof as it originally had. Windows have been changed back to how we see them and the timber walls are again boarded. The barn and the barn section have been built up as seen in older photos before the move to the museum (but made 80 cm shorter to fit the terrain). All this work has been carried out in collaboration with the Traditional Building Craftsmanship study at NTNU, as a central part of the practice for bachelor students. 

The new location will provide better preservation conditions for the building, and new opportunities for dissemination. The move is part of a comprehensive plan for the further development of the folk museum.