The Old Town has buildings from Christiania (now Oslo) and suburbs as well as other Norwegian towns. King Christian IV founded Christiania in 1624 after the old city of Oslo, which mainly had wooden structures, burned to the ground.
The new town, Christiania, was established on a new site near by. The layout was planned according to a grid system, making the streets and blocks form perfect squares. As a fire precaution, all buildings had to be built in brick or as timber framed brick structured. Norsk Folkemuseum’s “Old Town” has preserved some of the best and architecturally most pleasing structures from Christiania, as well as a number of more humble houses from different socioeconomic strata, including parts of the working class suburb of Enerhaugen. The way of urban living in the 20th century is shown in Wessels gate 15, a three story Oslo apartment building from 1865.
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