The Romsdal Museum (Romsdalsmuseet) is an open-air museum covering traditional life in the Romsdal region across several centuries. It consists of about 50 historic buildings relocated from their original sites — farmhouses, a smithy, a schoolhouse, a church — arranged on a hillside site above Molde and linked by paths through gardens and woodland.
The collection spans the 1400s to the early 20th century and is particularly strong on rural farmhouse interiors, which have been carefully maintained with period furniture and equipment. A separate indoor exhibition covers urban Molde's history, including the near-total destruction of the town in German bombing raids in April 1940, when the German forces bombed the town because King Haakon and the Norwegian government had taken refuge there. The town was rebuilt after the war in a standard postwar Scandinavian modernist style, which explains why almost no old buildings remain in the centre. The museum is open year-round but the outdoor sections are best visited May through September.