Norwegian Sawmill Museum

The Norwegian Sawmill Museum is located at Spillum, to the immediate south of Namsos. The museum opened in 1991, based on the then closed down Spillum Sawmill & Planing, a sawmill from 1884. The Norwegian sawmill industry was, around the start of the 19th century, one of Norway’s largest industries with several hundred steam powered sawmills. Spillum Sawmill & Planing is the last preserved sawmill from this period and tells the story about the national sawmill history. The Sawmill Museum is today one out of four departments at the regional museum, ”Museet Midt”. The three other departments are The Coast Museum in North Trøndelag, Namdal Museum and Nord-Trøndelag County Gallery. As well as the technical-industrial cultural environment at Spillum Sawmill & Planing, The Norwegian Sawmill Museum manages the tugboats ”MB Hauka” and "MB Oter" and a collection of objects from the national history of sawmills, displaying sawmill equipment from most of the country’s regions. The Norwegian Sawmill Museum has a staff of about 11 employees. The staff run the museum from the facilities at the sawmill.

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