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Blokkodden Wilderness Museum (Blokkodden Villmarksmuseum)
Blokkodden Wilderness Museum, located near Drevsjø in Engerdal Municiplality, is an open-air museum showing how people have utilized the natural resources in the area from the 17th century and up until today. Coal burning, fishing, hunting and farming were important basics way of life. During the 20th century forestry was a major industry. Engerdal is the southernmost area in Norway with Sami population and a living Sami tradition with reindeer herding. A reconstructed southern Sami winter camp shows the traditional Sami way of life in the area.
Trysil Museum (Trysil Bygdetun)
Trysil Museum, situated in the hill just above Trysil town centre, is an open-air museum with a collection of 21 historical buildings from Trysil. The museum consists of farmhouses, outbuildings and mountain farm buildings showing how people in Trysil lived in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Examples of decorative painting show the influence from neighbouring areas both in Norway and Sweden.
Støa Canal (Støa kanal)
Støa canal, located in Støa in Eastern Trysil, is a timber floating canal built in the 19th century, designed to carry timber from the forests in Ljørdalen in Trysil to the sawmills in Karlstad, Sweden. In order to manage the hight difference between the Ljøra River and the Flersjøen Lake, two large wooden constructions with waterdriven weels, powering wagons to lift the timber, were built. The canal was in use from 1858 to 1901, after this the canal became overgrown and the wooden constructions decayed. In the 1990s one of the two wooden constructions was reconstructed and large parts of the canal made more accessible for the public.
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