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Hospitalkirken
The cobblestone streets immediately west of the centre are also lined with mid-19th-century wooden buildings, notably the octagonal 1705 timber church, Hospitalkirken, in the hospital grounds.
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Bjerkebæk
Bjerkebæk celebrates the life of Sigrid Undset, one of Norways most notable authors, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her home has been restored with memorabilia from her life.
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Flekkefjord Museum
Flekkefjord Museum is housed in a home dating from 1724. The 19th-century interiors, mostly the bequest of one local woman, illustrate how a high-bourgeois home of the time would have been furnished.
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Cultural History Collection
The Cultural History Collection takes in Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut culture. Displays cover everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies.
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Røldal Stave Church
This 13th-century stave churchs wooden cross, according to local legend, sweats every midsummers eve; the sweat is said to have healing powers, and was an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.
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Kristiansand Kunsthall
Shows change seasonally, but are usually high-concept, challenging surveys well worth a browse. Its a stunning space, with a rare elevated town outlook. It hosts key events during the annual Punkt festival.
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Kulturhuset
Hammerfests recently completed Kulturhuset is worth a brief visit, simply to savour its striking architecture. Within, theres a theatre, a couple of cinemas and a small cafe that does a decent cup of coffee.
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Lom Bygdamuseum
Behind Norsk Fjellmuseum, this museum is a collection of 19th-century farm buildings, several stabbur (elevated store houses), an old hut (its claimed that St Olav slept here) and a summer mountain dairy.
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Oslo City Museum
Near the southern entrance to Vigeland park lies this museum. Housed in the 18th-century Frogner Manor (built on the site of a Viking-era manor), it contains exhibits of minor interest on the citys history.
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Setesdal Mineral Park
For displays of local and worldwide minerals, this well-run park is every rock collectors dream come true, with a wonderful world of colour and quartz, and many items for sale. Its about 10km south of Evje.
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Bøyabreen
At blue, creaking Bøyabreen, more spectacular than Supphellebreen to the east over the hill, you might happen upon glacial calving as a hunk tumbles into the melt-water lagoon beneath the glacier tongue.
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Ringebu Samlingene
Some 300m uphill to the east of the Stave Church are the buildings from 1743 Ringebu Samlingene, which served as the vicarage until 1991. Guided tours are available and theres a cafe within the grounds.
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Aulestad
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and lived on a farm at Aulestad , 18km northwest of Lillehammer. It has been lovingly restored, although you’ll need your own vehicle to get here.
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Lofthus Stone Church
This stone church dates back to 1250 (although the tower was added in the 1880s) and has some fine stained-glass windows. Its surrounded by an atmospheric cemetery containing some graves from the Middle Ages.
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Rock City
The large white cube under construction is a temple to rock and roll – and homage to the disproportionately large numbers of artists from Namsos who have made it big on the Scandinavian popular-music scene.
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Norwegian Emigrant Museum
Around 10km east of town, the fine open-air Norwegian Emigrant Museum focuses on exhibits and archives from Norwegian emigrants to America from the 1880s. There’s also a research library open to members (Nkr150).
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Lofoten Aquarium
Fish and sea animals of the cold Arctic waters inhabit this decent aquarium. Children will particularly enjoy the seal and sea otter feeding frenzies (noon, 3pm and 6pm) and theres a multimedia show five times daily.
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Norsk Sagbruksmuseum
If youre interested in wood chopping and chipping, take a guided tour around this tribute to an important local industry. Over the bridge, 4km east of town, it commemorates Norways first steam-powered sawmill (1853).
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Botanic Gardens
Within the Arctic, Antarctic and alpine areas of Tromsøs carefully maintained and cared for Botanisk Hage grows flora from all over the worlds colder regions. And yes, its the worlds northernmost. Take bus 20.
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Rosenkrantztårnet
Built in the 1560s by Bergen governor Erik Rosenkrantz, this tower was a residence and defence post. It also incorporates parts of the keep (1273) of King Magnus the Lawmender and the 1520s fortress of Jørgen Hansson.
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