Larsnesbuda

"Larsnes wharf", also known as "Seljeset wharf", was a warehouse built at Haugen near Larsnes in Sande Municipality in 1888-89. At the end of the warehouse facing inland, there was a shop with a counter and a desk, and there were also two small rooms used as a storeroom and an office. Towards the sea, building had a winch for raising fish and goods up from the boats. This part of the warehouse was used for buying and salting fish. In 1866, the law was changed to allow free trade in rural areas. Any citizen without a criminal record could obtain a trading licence from the local police office, and start doing business wherever he wanted to. Nevertheless, high taxes were designed to prevent too many general stores from being opened i rural areas. In the days when the sea was the most important communication route, Larsnes was in an excellent location to be a steamship port and trading post. Until the WW1, alcoholic drinks were also traded here, and the building remained in use as a shop until 1941. After WWII, transport increasingly went by land, and Larsnes lost its importance as a trading post. The warehouse was erected at the museum in 1992.