Discover Moldjord: Trade History, Museum and River Trails

Moldjord brings together Beiarn’s cultural history, the history of a trading post and trails along the river. At the Beiarn Folk Museum, you’ll find an old vicarage and historic farm buildings, while the village’s appearance also reflects economic development and building traditions dating back to the 19th century. If you’d like to combine culture with time outdoors on your trip, you’ll find a range of options here to shape your day.

Cultural history at the Beiarn Folk Museum

The Beiarn Folk Museum is housed in a vicarage dating from 1857. The museum includes twelve farm buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Together, these buildings span two centuries and provide a tangible setting for exploring Beiarn’s cultural history. The museum’s collection comprises 166 objects collected by Gustav Moldjord from the age of 18 onwards. It tells both the cultural history of Beiarn and the story of a young person preserving the past.

Individual objects also give the museum its distinctive character: on display is a 1930 A-Ford vintage car known as the Rønnåbakk Ford. A guided tour of the exhibition “Once upon a time...” explores the history of the vicarage and endangered living cultural heritage. If you’re interested in the connections between local history, buildings and cultural traditions, you can make this tour a focus of your stay in Moldjord.

The church and the historic trading-post setting

Beiarn Church in Moldjord is a wooden long church built in 1872–1873. Its history also includes an older building: some of the fittings from the demolished chapel were later incorporated into the new church. This makes the passing down of historic fittings a tangible part of local history. The church and museum offer different perspectives: one focuses on a single church and its construction history, the other on an ensemble of a vicarage, farm buildings and collection objects.

Moldjord’s historic trading-post setting reflects continuity in economic development and building traditions from the 19th century to the present day. Moldjordfjæra and the river as a transport route are essential parts of this setting. If you’d like to explore Moldjord not just through individual buildings but also through its history as a trading post, you can consider these elements together. The history of the place and its surviving buildings complement one another, so exploring Moldjord needn’t be limited to a single structure.

Walking trails along the Beiar River

Elvestien is an easy walking trail along the Beiar River. The shorter loop, Kjærlighetsstien, is also part of Elvestien. It is accessible with an electric wheelchair and a pushchair. This applies to the Kjærlighetsstien loop; if you’re travelling with a pushchair or electric wheelchair, you can plan to use this route in particular. You can also fish for salmon and sea trout along Elvestien by the Beiar River. Walking and fishing offer different ways to spend time by the river.

When planning your trip, you can decide whether you’d prefer to explore the cultural history and trading-post setting or spend time on the river trails. These themes showcase different sides of Moldjord: historic buildings and collection objects on the one hand, and walking trails and fishing on the other. If these experiences suit your travel plans, you can consider Moldjord as a holiday destination and a holiday apartment in the village as a possible accommodation option.

Getting there and other places to visit

You can reach Moldjord by bus or car. Buses run daily from Bodø to Moldjord. When choosing your accommodation, you can take into account whether you’ll arrive by car or use the bus service. You can also include Tollå as another place to visit in your travel plans.

For the broader travel overview: Beiarn.