Medieval Museum
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The Medieval Museum,which is now one of the museums in the VITI foundation opened in 1987. It is built around the remains of three houses from the Middle Ages. The largest of these is called Årestova. An Årestove was a house that had the fireplace in the middle of the house. The placing of the fireplace means that we can date the house to the Viking Age. The house is relatively large, and was maybe used for gatherings, serving food and sleeping. The other two houses have the fireplaces in the wall, which tells us that these houses were built later in the Middle Ages. On the ledge that runs along the inside of the outerwall, there is an exhibition of some of the finds that have been made at the market place, and signs which tell about life in Borgund. In addition, there is a meeting room and a small kitchen. Outside the museum building you can see many poles sticking up out of the earth. These were put down to mark where archeologists found post holes. Here there were rows of large buildings down towards the sea/harbour. These could have been houses or warehouses for goods that were to be shipped further.