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Dalsfjord Lighthouse Museum

museum in Sunnmøre, Norway

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ11964602 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Dalsfjord Lighthouse Museum (Norwegian: Dalsfjord fyrmuseum) is a Norwegian museum founded in 1993. It is dedicated to documenting and presenting the social history of the people that built lighthouses, sector lights, markers, moorings, and ports along the Norwegian coastline.

The museum is located in Dravlaus in Volda Municipality, and it is part of the Sunnmøre Museum Foundation. The museum was opened in a new location with a new exhibit on November 8, 2012.

Editorial summary

“Dalsfjord Lighthouse Museum” enters the record as museum in Sunnmøre, Norway. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dalsfjord, Lighthouse and Museum can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dalsfjord, Lighthouse and Museum.
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Why this record matters

“Dalsfjord Lighthouse Museum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dalsfjord, Lighthouse and Museum provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11964602. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2012.

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Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dalsfjord Lighthouse Museum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.