Lillehammer Norwegian city and municipality located in Innlandet county, on the lake Mjøsa. Lillehammer is the 211th Norwegian municipality in terms of area. It is home to the Lysgårdsbakken ski jumps. In 1994, the XVII Winter Olympic Games were held here. Area: 477 km², population: 25,000, density: 52.57 people/km².
- On the hill of Maihaugen, at the initiative of the local dentist Andres Sandving, a collector of folk culture relics, the first Museum of Folk Art in Norway was established in 1894. In the famous open-air museum Maihaugen Friluftsmuseum, on an area of several dozen hectares, there are about 100 objects considered to be the most beautiful in Norway, including cottages, granaries, barns, granaries and other elements of farmsteads, a church from the 12th century. In Lillehammer there is also the house of the writer Singrid Undset, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1928, known mainly for her multi-volume novel “Kristina Lavrans’ daughter”.
- Other existing monuments include Ringebu Stavkirke – one of the oldest skeleton churches in Norway, dating from the first half of the 12th century, and the wooden church Lom Stavkirke from the beginning of the 13th century.
- Ski jumps. Lillehammer gained its greatest fame as the capital of the 1994 Winter Olympics. Ski jumping competitions were held on the Lysgardsbakken ski jumps with construction points K 123 and K 90. The ski jumps are also used during the World Cup competition in the so-called Scandinavian Tournament. The record for the K 123 ski jump has been held by Adam Małysz since 2006 and is 142 m. The ski jumps were built in 1993. The stands can accommodate 40,000 spectators. The name of the ski jump comes from the name of the mountain on which it was built. There are also several other Olympic facilities in the eastern part of the city, including the Haakons Hall sports center and the Norwegian Olympic Museum.
- Modern and older paintings are presented at the Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, whose collections focus mainly on Norwegian painting. The city also houses an exhibition of old cars and an exhibition of old locomotives and historical railway cars.
- It is also worth mentioning the only hologram museum in Norway and attractions for children, such as Hundrefossen Familiepark, where you can meet a Norwegian Troll or characters from Norwegian sagas and legends living in the Soria Moria Slott Palace, a modern water park with 43 slides and a special agritourism farm, where children can see Norwegian domestic animals up close.
