Bogstad is a Manor House from the 18th Century with authenic interiors and a wonderful park. Bogstad offers activities for the whole family, and has a café, a shop and reception rooms for rent.

Bogstad Manor is a listed and protected cultural monument and one of the few country estates in Norway. It holds a central position in Norwegian history, both as an industrial estate and as a centre during important periods of our political history.

The history of the estate dates back to 1649, but the site was cleared and cultivated in prehistoric times. While Norway was still Catholic the land was rented out to tenant farmers by Hovedøya Monastery.

After the reformatin in 1536 it was confiscated by the Crown.

In 1649 the Danish-Norwegian king Fredrik III sold Bogstad and number of other farms to Morten Lauritzen. These forest holdings provided raw material for sawmills and the timber trade, both rapidly expanding enterprised in the 17th century.

The Manor remained in the same family from its establishment in 1649 until it was left to the Bogstad Foundation in 1955, administered under the Norwegian Folk Museum. A unique gift, they left everything as it was so it’s an authentic place with layers of layers of significant history.

The name that most Norwegian associate with Bogstad Manor is Peder Anker, who became the first Norwegian Prime Minister in Stockholm in 1814 during the union with Sweden (1814-1905).

Bogstad Manor is part of the Norsk Folkemuseum foundation.