School closed for Christmas (NOR)

It sure doesn’t look like it’s Christmas in about two weeks, but all these pictures was taken today. As my Christmas holiday is pretty early this year, I suddenly had time to visit this abandoned school just before every school in the country close for Christmas. In this case, the school never opened again. And it has been closed for about eight years. Every plan for what to do with it has been scrapped, as the building just isn’t possible to use because of moisture and rot.

The school was used for pupils in 8th to 10th. What surprised me, was that it looked kinda like an elementary school because of the paintings on the wall, and the lack of a proper office area for the teachers. If they had one, it would have to be the cellar, unless we missed something (which don’t seem likely). I couldn’t find the construction year, but I know that it became a middle school in 1960. This kind of abandoned buildings is hard to find in Norway, and I’m pretty happy that we managed to get in at all. As far as I know, this is one of the only abandoned schools in Norway that still isn’t demolished or reused. Since December is one of the darkest months in Norway, I struggled to get good pictures with the lack of light.

Anyway, here it is:

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Shot from behind the school

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Inside this building is the pool and gym

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The facade. Less vandalism than expected.

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In front of the school

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Painting on the wall in the basement.

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Paintings on the wall in the basement.

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The cafeteria for the kids, placed in the basement.

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I don’t know what the purpose of this room was, but I think it was used as storage for shoes before the pupils entered the pool-site.

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Donald duck cartoon on the wall

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Winnie the Pooh cartoon on the wall

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Hallway to the pool and gym.

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Inside the sauna in the dressingroom.

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The showers

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The pool. I guess it’s about 50 meters long.

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Pool maintenance room

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Area 51 painting on the wall.

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Gymnasium from the scene.

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The ropes. Not sure if they are safe.

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Looks like the doors was opened with force.

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“In the darkness there is no one that sees, but they see, they see.”

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Hallway in the main buildings basement.

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One of the classrooms, the blackboard says: “Last day on *******”.

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I guess this was a science classroom.

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Home economics classroom

9 comments

  1. What does it say under the thing you blurred away?

    1. It’s the name of the place 🙂 Better keep it secret!

      1. Righty-right! Appy-polly-loggies. Nice blog anyways.

      2. Thank you! 😀

  2. emanuelvestrum@hotmail.com · · Reply

    Where is this?

  3. Hvor er det?

  4. This school is bulit in 1964. The swimming pool was 12,5 m long.

  5. Josefine · · Reply

    hei, hvis du ser dette. kunne du sende meg en melding på Instagram? Josefine.ee, Snapchat josefine041. Send meg melding eller add meg, vil gjerne snakke om dette bygget og få litt hjelp. Vet hvor det er, men ja. 😛 håper du svarer!

  6. Josefine · · Reply

    Eller om du vil at jeg skal snakke med deg et annet sted, gi meg brukernavnet ditt der! 🙂 takk!

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