Molåna

Comes from: Mo nordre - a neighboring farm to Stiklestad.
Age: from 1783
To the museum: Purchased in 1946 and installed at the museum in 1954-55.

Molåna is a trønderloan, built on a gray stone wall of lafta timber on two floors with standing panels. The loan has a normal salt roof that is covered with peat. The ground plan is symmetrical with a hallway and kitchen in the middle of the building and two rooms on each side. The door portal is in the Louis-seize style with carved framing and profiled moldings. The door leaf has a herringbone pattern. The color is red. The first painted houses in the country were often red or ochre-coloured, it had to do with price. White trønder loaners did not come into fashion until the end of the 1800th century.

When the museum bought the loan in 1946 (for NOK 3000), it had changed a lot after 1783, i.a. was the northern part of the building and the entrance area with the portal demolished. When the building was set up at the museum in the 1950s, everything was included so that it regained its old design.

A loan is a long, narrow house. The word is linguistically related to the English "lane". In Trøndelag, the house type has developed from the "three-room living room", a house with hallway, bedroom and living room/kitchen in one room. This house type gradually grew with rooms being added on each side of the original house. A voter could also come to several farms. In Molåna there is only one entrance, but a trønderlån often has two entrances, a main entrance and a kitchen entrance. If it is built into a choir room at one end, there will be three entrances.

The molåna is typical of a number of trønderlån that were built by the financial upper class at the end of the 1700th century. The houses have the same symmetrical ground plan and an entrance in the middle of the house that leads into a hallway. Behind the hallway is the kitchen with grue, on either side there are living rooms and at both ends is a chamber. This type of trønderloan exists, among other things, at Vibe and Trana in Steinkjer, and some of the pattern comes from the urban environment in Trondheim. At Mo, the idea must have originally been that the building could function as a meeting place in the hamlet when there was a need for it.

Before the cultural center was built in 1992, the museum had an office and several exhibitions in Molåna. The museum also operated a café/restaurant in the building. The house is still used for a café during the summer season, and it can be rented in special contexts throughout the year.

Molåna is protected following a decision of 19 April 1923. The decision therefore came long before the building was moved to the museum.