Lilleputthammer in Hafjell is the only family park in Norway specially adapted for children between 0 and 8 years. Here the children feel at home!
In "the little town with the big heart", children can ride trains, cars, boats, carousels, Ferris wheels, roller coasters or whizz down in Ola's frog jump. They can frolic in climbing towers, obstacle courses, bouncy castles and trampolines.
Inside the houses, the children can draw, build, play or go to the cinema. In the Children's Book Village , they can join in reading time, and there are theatre and shows several times a day in the small town!
At Lilleputthammer, we are concerned that the children should feel joy and mastery within a safe framework.
Around the park there are many seating areas, sandboxes, swings, trampolines, obstacle course, bouncy cushions, etc. We have trolleys for loan. There are baby changing rooms in all toilets and we have our own breastfeeding rooms in Cafe Central and Miniputthuset.
THE SMALL TOWN
Lilleputthammer Family Park in Hafjell is a miniature version of Storgata in Lillehammer in the 1930s, built on a scale of 1:4. For adults, Lilleputthammer Family Park provides a historical look back to the 1930s with the shops, hotels and cafes of the time. There are 44 shops, 2 hotels, 3 cafes, 2 bakery, police and cinema. Here you will find everything from J. Bøhmer's Hardware Store and Th. Julin's Embroidery Store to Sausage Maker Johansen.In "Storgata" in Lilleputthammer there is a cultural center, playhouse, Ola and Hedda's clubhouse, cinema, ball house, mini putty house with nursing hook, block house, train playhouse, carpenter's house, picture book house, comic book house, fact book house, mystery and youth literature house and "when mother and father were little houses".
For the houses, 2830 specially made insulated window panes, about 1 million moldings and 80,000 roof tiles have been used. In the Culture House you can read more about the history of Lilleputthammer.
THE STORY OF LILLEPUTTHAMMER
Lilleputthammer was opened by former Prime Minister Odvar Nordli on June 29, 1983 with great festivity and is Norway's oldest family park. It is now 31 years since Kjell and Hjørdis Madsen realized their secret dream of creating their own play village for the children, Lilleputthammer Play Village. Lilleputthammer Lekeby was a copy of Lillehammer in size 1/4 with 60 buildings from the city's Storgate in a style from the turn of the century. The initiative caused a stir throughout Norway and quickly became a well-known and beloved stop for families with children in the summer.
In 1996, Viking Gruppen AS (now Welle Gruppen AS) buys Øyer Gjestegård and Lilleputthammer, and from 2006 Welle Gruppen AS also takes over the operation of the park. From 2007, Lilleputthammer is established as a new family park, large sums are invested in new attractions and the houses in the street are renovated. The first attractions (Ferris wheel, frog jump, roller coaster, toll boats and electric cars) came in 2007. For the 25th anniversary in 2008, 3 more attractions were added (great-grandfather cars, nostalgia carousel and climbing tower) and the restaurant Park Cafeen is built in Søndre park.
During these two years, Children's Book City is also established as a small town within the small town with approx. 12,000 used children's books. From 2009 until today, the entertainment offer has been developed into regular theater performances and reading time every day. Two new stages have been established, and more shows are staged every summer.
The operating company of the family park is Lilleputthammer Lekeland AS. Hafjell Resort is responsible for the marketing of Lilleputthammer. Both companies are subsidiaries of Welle Gruppen AS.
Lilleputthammer Family Park in Hafjell is located 15 km north of Lillehammer.