This offer for summer 2025 has now ended:
Experience Ibsenbyen Skien, where the great poet lived his first fifteen years. Telemark Museum is offering two different daily Ibsen walks this summer until August 31st.
In the footsteps of Ibsen
Join the walk with the museum's skilled and knowledgeable guides. They will show you where little Henrik was born and where the houses he lived in were located. The Ibsen family lived an upper-class life in the patrician town of Skien before his father, Knud Ibsen, had major financial problems. You will hear about various memories Henrik himself has written about his childhood, and about what he was like as a young boy in Skien until he moved away from home at the age of 15.
2:00 PM every day (except Monday)
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From Skien to the world stage
Join this walk in Brekkeparken where there is more focus on the upper-class life of the patrician class that the Ibsen family and their friends lived. Here you will also get an insight into Henrik Ibsen's literature.
1:00 PM every day (except Monday)
Book here: From Skien to the world stage – an Ibsen walk | TELEMARK MUSEUM
Ibsen's House
While the Henrik Ibsen Museum at Venstøp is closed for restoration, Telemark Museum has opened Ibsenstua in Brekkeparken, a cozy little "shop" at the old main entrance to the park. This is where the walks start, and you can get information about Henrik Ibsen and not least Ibsen's gingerbread all summer long until August 31st.
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