This community exists because of the visionary spirit that founded it and because for a number of years now we have offered a genuine educational alternative in the local Norwegian context; an international education that is tailored to each individual and which aims to bring out the best qualities in every person.
Veien has been an important meeting-place for 3000 years. The grave area is one of the largest in the Nordic region, containing rich archaeological finds from the Early Iron Age, and a large number of graves and traces of settlements dating from the period around 900 BC to 1000 AD. 
Hallingdal Folk Museum was founded in 1899 by the Agricultural director Gudbrand Tandberg in Nesbyen. The museum is an open-air museum with 25 buildings laying by the falls of the river Rukkedøl, at the end of the Rukkedal valley, west of Nesbyen's town center. 
History about Sel municipality coat of arms is from the battle in Kringen 1612. The Scottish army - men who were hired to help in the Kalmar war - were on the road from 
As Mayor of the beautiful town of Nesbyen, it is a pleasure to be asked to say a little something about this place and the council of Nes. 
The Norsk Folkemuseum is Norway’s largest museum of cultural history. With collections from around the country, the museum shows how people lived in Norway from 1500 to the present. The more than 150 buildings in the Open-Air Museum represent different regions in Norway, different time periods, as well as differences between town and country, and social classes.
