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Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum
The permanent collection of this splendid museum exhibits the best of Scandinavian design, including a couple of bijou art-nouveau rooms. A whole floor is devoted to the pioneering works of three acclaimed female artists: the tapestry creations of Hannah Ryggen and Synnøve Anker Au
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National Military Museum
In the same courtyard as the Archbishops Palace, the National Military Museum is full of antique swords, armour and cannons, and recounts the days from 1700 to 1900, when the palace served as a Danish military installation. On the top floor is the Hjemmefront (Home Front) museum, d
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Ski Museum
The Ski Museum leads you through the 4000-year history of Nordic and downhill skiing in Norway. There are exhibits featuring the Antarctic expeditions of Amundsen and Scott, as well as Fridtjof Nansens slog across the Greenland icecap (youll see the boat he constructed from his sle
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Stavanger Museum
The large 11-part museum, with its sites scattered around Stavanger, could easily fill a sightseeing day or more. Entrance to all is by one day ticket (adult/child Nkr70/40), or there is a four-day MUSTpass (adult/family Nkr100/250). Museums include the Norwegian Printing Museum ,
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Varanger Sami Museum
In Varangerbotn, close to where the E6 meets the E75 17km east of Tana Bru, this is a fun, informative and high-tech display about Sami life and culture, with Sami-related temporary exhibitions and artwork by contemporary Sami artists. Outside is a small permanent open-air display
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Kristiansand Museum
Located 4km east of town on the E18, this open-air folk museum houses a collection of 40 farmsteads and hamlets from the Setesdalen region and Kristiansand itself. In summer there are lots of kids activities, including some nice hands-on historical recreations. Eastbound buses M1,
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Norwegian Railway Museum
Established in 1896 to honour Norways railway history, this open-air railway museum lies on the Mjøsa shore around 3km west of the centre. In addition to lovely historic stations, engine sheds, rail coaches and steam locomotives, youll learn about the extraordinary engineering feat
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Herregården Manor House
The classic baroque timber Herregården manor house was constructed in 1677 as the home of the Norwegian Governor General, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, the Duke of Larvik. As the illegitimate son of King Frederik IV of Denmark, Gyldenløve was given a dukedom and packed off to Norwegia
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Kon
A favourite among children, this worthwhile museum is dedicated to the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, which Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. The museum also displays the totora-reed boat Ra II, built by Aymara people on the Bolivian island of Suriqui i
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Stavanger Bymuseum
Features at this city museum include evidence of Stone Age habitation, the medieval bishopric, the herring years and the development of the city into a modern oil capital. Stavanger of the 1880s is described in a series of tableaux focusing on local author Alexander L Kielland. Als
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Sjøgata
A stroll around the Sjøgata area, with over 100 listed buildings, takes you past galleries, coffee shops, restaurants and private homes in attractively renovated former warehouses, workshops and boat sheds. The History of a Town , available at the museum and tourist office, is an e
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Norsk Fjordsenter
The Norwegian Fjord Centre has tools, artefacts and even whole buildings that have been uprooted and brought here, illustrating the essential themes – the mail packet, avalanches, the building of early roads and the rise of tourism – that have shaped the land and its people. Its lo
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Stave Church
The areas main claim for your attention was raised in 1184. It impresses from within by its sheer height, although much of what you see dates from a fundamental renovation in the 17th century. Wall paintings in the nave feature musical annotation, while vine and flower motifs entwi
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Andersgrotta
Drop down the steep stairs of Andersgrotta into this cave that once served as an air-raid shelter and bunker as wave upon wave of Russian bombers sought to knock out the Nazi ore shipping facility. Theres a multilingual presentation, and a nine-minute video also tells the tale. Wra
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Draagen Smokehouse
Petter Aune set up this operation, where freshly caught Aukra salmon are smoked with pure local wood and herbs, after tiring of the poor quality industrial product. Its one of only a few left in Norway and the resulting salmon does indeed have the elusive smakupplevelse – a melt-in
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Sund Fiskerimuseum
This fishery museum lies in the village of Sund, 3km off the E10 south of Ramberg. In one dim shack, theres an astounding clutter of boats, ropes and floats while within another is an unlabelled yet fascinating jumble of pots and pans, skis, old valve radios and the like. Tor-Vegar
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Geological
The Geological-Palaeontological Museum contains displays on the history of the solar system and Norwegian geology, as well as examples of myriad minerals, meteorites and moon rocks. The palaeontological section includes Ida, the worlds oldest complete primate fossil. In addition yo
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Blodveimuseet
The moving Blodveimuseet, in a former German barracks within the museum grounds, is visited by a 30-minute guided tour. It reveals conditions for Slav and Russian forced labourers who forged the road and railway northwards. The prisoners cemetery, with the remains of some 7000 men,
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Open
Most of the timber-built historic district has been preserved as an open-air museum , where the spartan quarters and kitchens of the fishing families contrast with the sumptuous décor of the merchants’ housing. There’s also a 20-minute slide presentation, included in the museum pri
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Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter
On the main square and beside the tourist office and Lofoten Kulturhus (lofotenkulturhus.no; a cultural centre housing a cinema and exhibition space), the North Norwegian Artists Centre hosts changing exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, ceramics and more by artists from northern N
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