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Lovely. I was fortunate to catch a concert for children that day. the house and museum was well maintained and the staff very helpful. English help was available and the tour was conducted in both English and Norwegian.

This was part of Cosmos tour to Bergen, Norway. Troldhaugen was the home of Edvard Grieg and his family. The small estate lies just outside the city of Bergen on landscaped grounds that roll gently down to the water in an area that is surprisingly peaceful and secluded. Grieg's composing cottage is still there and a small museum and concert hall have been built on the grounds.

Edward Grieg house is a very beautiful place. Surrounded by trees, flowers looks like from fairytale.Inside you can find a lot of things, which Edward Grieg used, with his famous piano.Near there is also concert hall, where is possible to listen piano concerts, of course with Grieg music. Must see it!

Interesting museum. His hom was under renovation. Beautiful views of the lake. There was a room with a video accompanied by his musical masterpieces.

Troldhaugen was the home of Edvard Grieg and his family. The small estate lies just outside the city of Bergen on landscaped grounds that roll gently down to the water in an area that is surprisingly peaceful and secluded. Grieg's composing cottage is still there and a small museum and concert hall have been built on the grounds.On the day of my visit, Rune Alver performed in concert...playing several well-known pieces by Edvard Grieg. Mr. Alver was just back from a U.S. tour and was nice enough to speak with us and to autograph CD's. The concert hall blends into the landscape with its sod roof and natural building materials. The backdrop for the concert grand piano is a window wall that overlooks the composer's studio and the water beyond. Simply splendid.I was able to tour the small yellow house where Grieg raised his family, but unfortunately, didn't have time to see his grave site or the museum. When time is limited, it's all about choices. I was fortunate to enjoy the concert and speak with Mr. Alver. I highly recommend this destination. It's just a short drive outside the city limits and a visit will give you insight into the composer's life and work.

This is one of the prides of Bergen. Named after one of the most renowned personalities of Bergen, this museum should be a must place to visit while in Bergen.

Go for the view that inspired this brilliant composer. Listen to the interpretation of the musicians who have studied this unique master. If you're familiar with some of the music you'll be pleasantly surprised by a new sound and rhythm. If you're not familiar with any of the music you'll be wonderfully entertained by a vast array of joy, sorrow, yes, even humor. Watch very carefully and you'll discover that what sounds quite simple and easy is really very complex and difficult to produce. Sit in the audience left center seats to get the best view of hands on the keyboard. Buy tickets and take the bus directly from the tourist office on the wharf. A guide is provided from that point. There are only snacks and drinks at the book shop. Inquire about wheelchair access.

Beautiful place, lots of interesting things about this great composer. It's easy to see how the place inspired magnificent music. This place has a nice shop but what's most important is you can learn about the man and his family. Very strongly recommended.

The grounds of Grieg's House and studio are wonderfully peaceful and beautiful, with a spectacular view of a fjord. We attended a piano recital in the small concert Hall that has the same fjord view. Fantastic!!

We had mixed feelings about our visit to Troldhausen. It is very much a tourist run-a-round and we were surrounded by lots of folks who wanted to take a picture… buy a souvenir… to use the toilet facilities and to have a coffee in a short period of time and the rush, rush, rush seemed to detract from the wonderful atmosphere that the composer created for himself so that he could compose in peace.We had a quick guided tour of the inside of the house… a waste of time really… rooms so crammed with people that it was difficult to see things that were being described and we often found that we were being seriously distracted by the guide of the party just in front of our own one who was doing her own tour.The exhibition is disappointing and depressing… very dark… very few artifacts of any interest and lots of really small writing.By contrast… the concert hall is stunningly bright, light and airy with a stupendous view down the little “Valley of the Trolls” to the composing hut on the shore of Lake Nordås, where Grieg wrote some of his best-known music. We had a brilliantly varied and engaging concert by a professor of music from Oslo University… it was a really pleasure and a delight… and we’re not classical buffs.Some of the best things that we found that really brought Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina to life was the trees on the approach to the house… they had been carefully trimmed… almost sculpted… to give the impressions of an army of trolls… visitors with imagination visiting the Grieg’s in their summer retreat in the 1890s ran the gauntlet of these strange beings on their way across the Valley of the Trolls to the rather grand and impressively, arty summer residence that the Grieg’s built and named Troll Hill. It’s not often that a sense of humor can still amuse a century later.Troldhaugen was sold off by Nina after her husband’s death and it was years before there was an attempt to recreate the house and interior. However the grounds around are charming…. mosses, trees, ferns, wildflowers and the occasional introduced plants… we found that it was well worth having a look around… just to absorb the atmosphere of a place that Grieg found so stimulating.Top Tip: If short of time… do the concert, the composing hut and forget about the house.

A great place to spend an hour or two if you have more than one day in Bergen. It's a scenic, very peaceful location, nicely laid out. The house museum is small but informative. It was nice to see the cabin where he wrote his compositions.

The Villa was built in 1885, and the couple lived there the last 22 summers of Edvard Grieg’s life. Troldhaugen became a museum in 1928 and includes Grieg’s Villa, the composer’s hut and the Grieg couple’s gravesite as well as a modern museum building and the concert hall Troldsalen, a chamber music hall seating 200 people. Troldsalen is the centre of the museum’s extensive concert activities and has excellent acoustics.

great morning at the museum. learned a lot about grieg. it is easy to see why he lived at this location. the museum was interesting but i enjoyed the walking around his home. the concert was excellent, the pianist appeared passionate about the music.

If I were asked to rank my top classical composers, Grieg would definitely be in the top-3, and be a strong contender for the #1 spot. That said, I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know the composer was from Bergen until after we got there. Seeing the house and being taken on the tour was interesting. Hearing the afternoon concert, with an excellent, informed performance of Grieg's music while looking out over his composing shed and sharing the view he had while composing, was a sublime aesthetic experience. Unless you have a car, booking the bus tour that starts from the tourist information building is a decent value. You're paying 90NOK over the cost of just the tour and concert itself to be taken on the bus, and you're going to do a decent walk if you rely on public transportation. You get a bit of a whirlwind tour of Bergen and its relevance to Grieg on the way out of town, which gives some context to his home and life. The only downside was that our tour was very full (a few people didn't have seats on the bus and had to stand for the 30-minute drive), and we were a bit rushed going through the house and exhibits since they had to split us up into 3-groups. If you happen to be in town for an evening concert at the Troldhaugen museum, I might recommend doing that and skipping the tour. Either way, just make sure you don't leave Bergen without experiencing a performance of Grieg at the place he wrote so much of his music.

The house is interesting, outside currently under renovation but they have a painted screen so it looks somewhat like it will when done. Inside many items authentic to his home. Grounds lovely, and the grass-covered performance hall adjacent to the home is beautiful with a picture window at the stage overlooking the fjord. Together with the music, this is a marvelously relaxing and beautiful experience. Recommend highly if in season, esp. the Sunday event which doesn't interrupt your daytime touring in/around Bergen. A bus leaves from the tourist office to provide RT service, since his estate is out of central Bergen.