Bjerkebæk, Lillehammer

Bjerkebæk was Sigrid Undset's home in Lillehammer. The home is today a museum.

The author and Nobel Prize winner Undset moved to Bjerkebæk in 1919 and lived there until her death in 1949 with the exception of the war years 1940-45 where she stayed in the United States. Undset developed the property in the period from 1919 to 1924 with the relocation of an old log house from Gudbrandsdalen and with the establishment of gardening facilities on the property.

Undset gave the home name after the archeske "Mr Bjerkebek" in the Danish author Erik Bøghs Vaaudeville a Caprice from 1858.

The farmhouse was protected in 1983 and Bjerkebæk is now owned by the state by the Ministry of Culture, and the operational responsibility was transferred to Maihaugen, from 2011 Lillehammer Museum. Work on restoring and decorating the houses as they were in the 1930s, in Undset's time, was started in 1997.

The audience building at Bjerkebæk was opened in May 2007. It was designed by Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk and contains exhibitions, book café and lecture room. The foundation of the service building/public building was closed down on March 27, 2006 by Queen Sonja.