The 5 Best Shopping in Lillehammer, Eastern Norway

Pleasant shopping in nostalgic surroundings! At Blindheimsvik landhandel, we sell a wide range of selected goods with a 1950s and 1960s feel. Here, you can buy everything from sweets, diluting juice and soaps to toys, textiles and home furnishing products. The shop is an original general store from Vigra, which was moved to the Norwegian Road Museum in 1995. If you join a guided tour of the first floor, you will also get an insight into the lives of the store's owners. Their home is intact with furniture, clothes and furnishings. Welcome!

Galleri Zink is a gallery located at Sigrid Undsets Plass right in the heart of Lillehammer, and shows contemporary art and craft from most well known Norwegian artists. The gallery was established by ceramicist Johan Mæhlum in 2008, and shows 8-10 exhibitions per year in the main gallery space, as well as continually showing a wide selection of art and craft in the smaller side rooms and in the upstairs gallery space. Additionally the gallery produces and curates the Peer Gynt exhibition (located at Gala), the festival exhibition during the Norwegian Literature Festival, the Autumn Exhibition at Ilsetra (in the Øyer mountains) and the annual Christmas exhibition in the gallery. In addition to having a wide selection of contemporary Norwegian art from around the country, it is also a great place to get a feel for the local art scene, as most professional local artists are represented.

Fabrikken is a centre for creative and cultural initiatives. It comprises some 40 enterprises focusing on visual art, ceramics, jewellery design, textiles, music, theatre, film, photo and architecture. The ateliers and workshops are well worth a visit. Art, handicraft and Nordic design are available from the factory outlet.