Discover Rennebu

Rennebu offers a special way to connect with its cultural history: a museum showcases life on a typical farm, a restored suspension bridge commemorates its builders, and Rennebu kirke stands out for its Y-shaped floor plan. If you make cultural discoveries the focus of your trip, the place names Voll and Gammelbua can also be useful reference points when looking for a holiday apartment.

Farm life at Rennebu Bygdetun

Rennebu Bygdetun is located on Haugen farm in Voll and opened as a museum on 4 July 1965. Thousands of artefacts illustrate life on a typical farm in Rennebu in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection thus spans two centuries of rural everyday life and makes a specific place a starting point for exploring the history of life in Rennebu.

For a visit together, you can focus on the objects and the way of life they convey: What was everyday life like on a typical farm, and what do the objects tell us about the two centuries mentioned? The Bygdetun offers a different focus from the bridge and the church: the emphasis is on farm life, not building history or pilgrim information.

Bridge building and church architecture

Kjerkbrua in Voll is an example of a restored suspension bridge. As a cultural monument and a monumental memorial to the bridge builders, it is of great local and regional value. Its significance therefore brings together the bridge’s construction with remembrance of the people who built bridges. Those interested in structures of this kind will find a distinct cultural-history point of interest here, alongside rural life at the Bygdetun.

Rennebu kirke also stands out for a distinctive architectural feature: it is one of five surviving Norwegian churches with a Y-shaped floor plan. The new Rennebu kirke was completed in 1669. A guided tour can be arranged on request. This allows you to combine a visit to the church with a look at a floor plan that is rare in Norway; requesting a tour is the intended way to arrange one.

Gammelbua and the Gudbrandsdalsleden

Gammelbua is on the pilgrimage route in the centre of Voll, 250 metres before Rennebu kirke. It has an information desk for pilgrims and other visitors. You can get information about accommodation, churches, grocery stores, eateries and rest areas, as well as other guidance for the final 101 kilometres of the Gudbrandsdalsleden towards Nidaros Cathedral. This makes Gammelbua a practical point of reference for visitors interested in the pilgrimage route or the services mentioned.

The place’s former use is also part of its history: the shop in Gammelbua operated for almost 100 years, until a new shop opened nearby in 1971. Gammelbua thus brings together a long history as a shop and its current information service. Interest in the place may therefore stem both from its role in everyday life in the past and from its importance to visitors and pilgrims.

Voll as a point of reference for your trip

For culture-minded travellers, Voll is a specific place name to keep in mind when looking for a holiday apartment in Rennebu: Rennebu Bygdetun, Kjerkbrua in Voll and Gammelbua in the centre of Voll are all located here. These three places represent different themes—farm life, bridge building and visitor information. If Rennebu kirke is part of your travel plans, the stated distance of 250 metres between Gammelbua and the church also provides a clear spatial reference.

For the overall travel overview: Rennebu.