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Three of the buildings in the cluster are now occupied by Sør-Troms Museum. These are the farmhouse Aronstua, its storehouse and combination barn. Aronstua was built before 1845 and has a long and chequered history.
Originally it was a log construction and its plan consisted of three main sections with the middle one containing the entrance and the kitchen with an open kitchen fireplace. The style was Empirestyle with characteristic double front door and two-casement windows each with three panes.
In 1870 two brothers split the house between them and the northern end was dismantled and added to another farmhouse. Later on Aronstua became the local school house and this lasted until 1910. During the period 1900-1910 it was extended upwards and the birch bark and turf roof was replaced with wooden shingles.
Yet more alterations were made in 1932 and the house got the shape it more or less has today. Electric lights were installed in 1936 and followed by the first electric cooker four years later. Water was not plumbed in until 1940 and the first telephone arrived in 1946.
The storehouse was built in 1939 reusing some logs from an older storehouse and partly a stave construction. Today the museum uses the building to display an old shop interior. The combination barn was built in 1922 partly reusing old logs and timber frame filled with vertical planks. There are two exhibitions in the barn: one about local Sami culture and the other about the author Regine Normann.

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