Take a tour along the cultural trail that goes through beautiful scenery and exciting historic buildings or book a tour in advance. At Hovedgården you can find out how the owners of the Jernverket lived while strolling through the partially restored baroque garden. There are people living in the three well-kept working areas today, and in some of them there are galleries and museum exhibitions.
In the summer both Eikern and Bergsvannet offer nice places for a swim.
Landhandelen is Norway’s oldest of its kind, which is still in operation, and here you are taken back to a time when the shop on the corner had it all.
At the Jernverket museum you can learn more about the 250-year history of the industrial company A / S Eidsfos verk and the local community that grew up around it. The well-preserved workers' homes form a historic framework form all the events that are held every year.
The owners of Eidsfoss Ironworks converted the business from a producer of raw material to a foundry based on scrap metal. Now new products, spanning everything from small kitchen equipment (such as pots, pans and baking irons) to railway carriages are produced there. The ironworks used to be most well known for its cast-iron oven production, which stopped in the 1960s.
The buildings in Eidsfoss form a unique cultural historical backdrop, which includes Bråtagata, Gata and Hauane, together with the ironworks area comprising the power station and Eidsfos Manor House.
Collection
Jørg Jebsen got hired by Jens J Jebsen & Co in 1953 after he had gotten a degree in textile. When Jørg Jebsen took over as manager in 1970 and looking further to 1980s he felt the need to preserve the story of the Berger and Fossekleven factory. He started by collecting objects and systematically organising it. When technology changed, and machines got modernised, it was especially important for Jebsen to save the old textiles and sketches.
Archives
Berger museums archives consist of objects from Berger and Foddekleven factory, Berger School, Berger sports team, Berger band, Berger church, Berger farm etc. The Jebsen family’s story is important when looking at the industrialization of Norway. The archives show the development of the textile industry over the span of 122 years. It shows interesting developments in wage, trade unions, technological development and much more.
Objects
The collection consists of pattern sketches bought from Germany and Sweden. Some can be tracked back to before 1910. At Berger factory makes textiles based upon both Norwegian and international design. German companies sold a lot of patterns, companies such as Schlegel &Løwenstein og Albert Diettrich in Chemnitz, Hermann Rossbach in Mylau, and Richard Metzner in Gera.
