The city's biggest attraction is the Sandvig Collection at Maihaugen, which ranks as the largest open-air museum in Europe and houses 185 buildings plus more than 40000 objects. Maihaugen presents a rural society through churches, homes, farm yards and tools from the Gudbrandsdalen valley which extends north from Lillehammer.

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The Norwegian Olympic Museum is the only museum in Northern Europe presenting the entire history of the Olympic Games, from their origin in ancient Greece in the year 776BC up to the present day. The museum is Norway’s largest and most important sports museum and is responsible for managing a national cultural treasure that has fascinated Norwegians for more than 100 years. The collection counts more than 7000 Olympic items in all.

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At Hunderfossen, north of Lillehammer, we find the norwegian Road Museum. Pay a visit and be convinced that the history of Norwegian roads can be both exiting and interesting. There are indoor exhibitions at the museum, and outside, there is a 75 acre open air museum with buildings and machines on display.

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The Norwegian Automobile and Vehicles Museum contains a display of Norwegian auto-history, from the early 1900's re-built Olds mobile, called "Oldsfossum", up to the "Troll", the last Norwegian produced car in the 1950's.

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Lillehammer's commercial areas, at least those interesting for visitors (I am expecting tourists not to be interested in bulk fertilizer, 2nd hand tractors, car dealers etc.) are centered on two areas: The main area, well-known because of the Lillehammer Olympic, is the centre of Lillehammer itself, with the pedestrian areas and adjacent side roads, back yards, parallel roads etc. The Storgata pedestrian street is the focal place.

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Downtown you will find the Lillehammer art museum, which many argue is the country's leading visual arts museum with significant works by Norwegian artists. The permanent collection includes paintings and drawings by J. C. Dahl, Hans Gude, Adolph Tidemand, Erik Werenskiold, Eilif Peterssen, Christian Krogh, Frits Thaulow, Edvard Munch and others.

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