Museums of Norway

Norway is a country with a glorious and long past. More information about it will help museums in Norway, which exhibited items telling about the history and cultural customs of the country. There are historical, military, art museums. Many of them are dedicated to the sea - after all this state is famous for its seaworthy traditions and centuries-old marine history (by the way, on the request of "Norway's museums photo" search engines first of all find photographs of the exhibits of "marine" museums).

The architecture of museums in Norway deserves special attention: those that are located in specially built buildings for this purpose have a very original design, so tourists often like to photograph them.

Bygde - the "peninsula of museums"

The Bugde Peninsula (Bugday, Bugdy), located about 5 km from the center of Oslo and now part of it, is called the "museum peninsula". There are many museums with marine themes:

1. The Museum of Viking ships is one of the most popular Norway, although not too large. Here are three ships built in the 9th-10th centuries, found in burial mounds. Two of them were subjected to restoration, one is exhibited in the form in which it was found. In addition to ships, in the museum you can see home utensils, shoes, other household items, which were also extracted from the burial mounds.
2. The Museum of Tour Heyerdahl in Norway is no less popular. It is also called the "Kon-Tiki Museum", because the famous raft is the main exhibit of the museum. In addition to the items used by Thor Heyerdahl during the expeditions, one can see an exhibition of caves arranged in the likeness of the caves of Easter Island. In addition, the museum also has an underwater part.
3. Museum Fram - another museum on the peninsula of Bugde. It is named after the expedition ship Fridtjof Nansen and is dedicated to three polar expeditions committed on board this wooden sailing-motor schooner. The ship itself is also among the exhibits.
4. In the Norwegian Maritime Museum, tourists will see maps, navigational aids, photographs and models of ships, as well as three vessels: a lifeboat Colin Archer, a Venus yacht and a Svanen schooner. In addition, there are works of art with marine themes.
5. The National Museum of Norway. On the peninsula there is another museum, but, unlike the others, its theme with the sea is not connected. It is one of the largest open-air museums in Europe, where you can see the life of Norwegian peasants, from the XVI century to the present.

Other museums in Oslo

Among other museums in Oslo, it should be noted:

1. The Museum of the Armed Forces of Norway (it is also called the Museum of Defense or the Museum of Military History). It is located on the territory of Akershus Fortress . It is possible to get acquainted with the military history of the country, since the time of the Vikings;
2. Museum of the city of Oslo , telling about the millennial history of the city;
3. Munch Museum , dedicated to the life and work of the famous Norwegian graphic artist Edward Munch;
4. National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design . It consists of several buildings: the Museum of Modern Art , the Museum of Applied Arts, the Museum of Architecture, the National Gallery ;
5. The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , or the Norwegian Technical Museum, is dedicated to the technologies of the past and the future;
6. The Nobel Peace Center is a museum in which you can learn about the history of the existence of the peace prize and about the fate and activities of each of its laureates;
7. The Ski Museum is one of the oldest museums of similar themes in the world;
8. The Ibsen Museum is dedicated to the life and work of the most famous of Norwegian writers.

Military museums in Norway

Fans of weapons and military history should visit:

1. Naval Museum in the city of Horten. It is located on the territory of the former military base. Here you can see pictures of marine themes, the library of the Royal Navy, which includes 25 thousand volumes, and most importantly - real ships, submarines and many naval instruments.
2. Fortress Mövik , located near Kristiansand . It was built by German troops in 1941, there was a naval battery. At the end of the war, the fort moved to the department of the Ministry of Defense and remained operational until 1959. Today in its territory you can also visit the Museum of cannons, the most famous exhibit of which is the second largest gun in the range of cannons ever used. It was used to control the Skagerrak Strait between Norway and Denmark .
3. The Arquebus Museum is one of the largest military museums in Norway (its area is about 2000 square meters), it is devoted to the history of World War II.

Named museums

There are also such museums in Norway that are dedicated to the work of one single person:

1. The Grieg Museum in Norway is one of the most famous and popular, as the composer is rightly considered the national pride of the country. The house-museum consists of Grieg's house itself, a small house in which he retired to write music, museum buildings, where the notes and other personal belongings of the composer, as well as the concert hall of Trollzalen are exhibited. Not far from the museum is the grave of Grieg - he is buried in the rock with his wife.
2. In Fredrikstad there is a small house museum of Rual Amundsen . All the items in the house have been preserved since the childhood of the famous explorer.
3. Not far from the village of Hamarey, next to which is the farm where Knut Hamsun was born, is the center of the name of this famous writer. It includes several exhibition areas, a library, a reading room and video halls, where you can see films made on the writer's works.

Other interesting museums

Among other museums that did not fall into one category or another, let's name the following:

1. In the city of Fredrikstad is the smallest museum in the world - the Royal Museum of Humor . Its area is only 20 square meters. The museum exposition is dedicated to the jokes of the three most famous Norwegian comedians - Ragnar "Joker" Pedersen, Morten M and Arvid Andreassen.
2. In Buda there is the National Aviation Museum , which tells about civil and military aviation in Norway.
3. The Norwegian Railway Museum is located near the city ​​of Hamar . It can see locomotives, wagons of the first years of operation of the Norwegian railway, as well as models of station buildings, many photographs and an extensive library of railway literature.
4. In the city of Kukelwe, the Ethnographic Museum of the Sea Saami works, telling about the way of life and culture of this nation.
5. In Borg the Viking Museum Lofotr , which is the reconstructed dwelling of the leader, works.
6. In Lillehammer , one of the best open-air museums in Norway, the Maihaugen Ethnographic Museum, deserves attention . In it you can not only see the houses typical for the fishing and peasant villages of the country, but also take a walk in the luxurious gardens, buy handicrafts, and in winter - visit the Christmas market.
7. Another interesting museum of Lillehammer is dedicated to historical transport .
8. Not far from the village of Fjarland is the Museum of Glaciers , where not only the museum's exposition is interesting, but also the building itself, which received the Pritzker Prize for Architecture.
9. The Hanseatic Museum in Bergen talks about the activities of the same name.
10. The Buekorps Museum is dedicated to a brigade of young drummers, a sort of children's military militia in the city of Bergen.
11. The city of Stavanger invites to visit the no less famous Cannery Museum , located in the premises of the former cannery. Here you can learn in detail about the technology of making canned fish, which the city is so famous for.
12. The city of Hammerfest , on whose arms the polar bear is depicted, is famous for the Polar Bear Museum-Museum .