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Fredriksten Fortress & Museums
Crowning the hilltop behind Halden is the 1661 Fredriksten Fortress, which has resisted six Swedish sieges and never been captured. The fortress covers a large area much of which is grassy expanses and tumble-down walls, but there are a couple of interesting museums, a restored cob
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Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum
Lofoten War Memorial Museum, privately and passionately run, is a fascinating place. Models in original military uniforms gaze down and there are plenty of artefacts and evocative, largely unpublished WWII-era photos.
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Fjellheisen
For a fine view of the city and midnight sun, take the cable car to the top of Mt Storsteinen (421m). Theres a restaurant at the top, from where a network of hiking routes radiates. Take bus 26 and buy a combined bus and cable-car ticket (adult/child Nkr145/65).
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Gamle Stavanger
Gamle (Old) Stavanger, above the western shore of the harbour, is a delight. The Old Towns cobblestone walkways pass between rows of late-18th-century whitewashed wooden houses, all immaculately kept and adorned with cheerful, well-tended flowerboxes. It well rewards an hour or two
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Hvalsenteret
Andenes Whale Centre provides a perspective for whale-watchers, with displays on whale research, hunting and the life cycle of these gentle giants. Most people visit the centre in conjunction with a whale safari. Theres also an onsite restaurant. It sometimes stays open as late as
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Olympic Sights
After Lillehammer won its bid for the 1994 Winter Olympics, the Norwegian government ploughed over two billion kroner into the towns infrastructure. In an example to other Olympic host cities, most amenities remain in use and visitors can tour the main Olympic sites over a large ar
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Polar Museum
The 1st floor of this harbourside museum illustrates early polar research, especially the ventures of Nansen and Amundsen. Downstairs theres a well-mounted exhibition about the hunting and trapping of fuzzy Arctic creatures on Svalbard before coal became king there. Note the explod
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Sørlandets Kunstmuseum
This exceptional regional art museum focusses on both fine and craft-based practices, and the collection includes some particularly strong contemporary work from local, Norwegian and Nordic artists. There is a bright, beautifully designed, pleasingly sophisticated childrens wing. F
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Polaria
Daringly designed Polaria is an entertaining multimedia introduction to northern Norway and Svalbard. After an excellent 14-minute film about the latter (screened every 30 minutes), plus another about the northern lights, an Arctic walk leads to displays on shrinking sea ice, a nor
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Stiftsgården
Scandinavias largest wooden palace, the late-baroque Stiftsgården, was constructed as a private residence in the late 18th century, at the height of Trondheims golden age. It is now the official royal residence in Trondheim. Admission is by tour only, every hour on the hour. The pu
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Magic Ice
Housed, appropriately, in what was once a fish-freezing plant, this is the ultimate place to chill out, perhaps with something to warm the spirit, served in an ice glass. The 500-sq-metre space is filled with huge ice sculptures, illustrating Lofoten life. If you cant come back to
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In the tiny fishing hamlet of Nes, this delightful, engagingly informative small museum celebrates the eider duck and the way the birds were nurtured as domestic pets, when they returned – each one to its very same nesting box – after their winter migration. The E-house occupies a
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Norwegian Glacier Museum
For the story on flowing ice and how it has sculpted the Norwegian landscape, visit this well executed museum, 3km inland from the Fjærland ferry jetty. You can learn how fjords are formed, see a 20-minute audiovisual presentation on Jostedalsbreen, touch 1000-year-old ice, wind yo
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Home of Rock
This terrific museum is devoted to pop and rock music, mainly Norwegian, from the 1950s until yesterday. Its a dockside temple to R&B, where a huge projecting roof, featuring Norwegian record covers, extends above an equally vast converted warehouse. Within, theres plenty of ac
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Hammerfest Kirke
The design of Hammerfests contemporary church, consecrated in 1961, was inspired by the racks used for drying fish in the salty sea air all across northern Norway. Behind the altar, the glorious stained-glass window positively glows in the summer sun, while the wooden frieze along
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Gaustabanen Cable Railway
Gaustabanen runs 860m deep into the core of Gausta before a different train climbs an incredible 1040m, alongside 3500 steps at a 40-degree angle, to 1800m, just below the Gaustahytte, not far from the summit. It was built by NATO in 1958 at a cost of US$1 million to ensure it coul
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Arctic Cathedral
The 11 arching triangles of the Arctic Cathedral (1965), as the Tromsdalen Church is more usually called, suggest glacial crevasses and auroral curtains. The magnificent glowing stained-glass window that occupies almost the whole of the east end depicts Christ descending to earth.
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Ibsenhuset Museum
Norways favourite playwright, Henrik Ibsen, washed up in Grimstad in January 1844. The house where he worked as a pharmacists apprentice, and where he lived and first cultivated his interest in writing, has been converted into the Ibsenhuset Museum. It contains a re-created pharmac
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Andøya Rocket Range
Located 1km south of the town entrance along the road to Bleik, this innovative space centre has a wide-screen 16-minute movie and other exhibits about the aurora borealis (rockets sent up from here aid in the study of this phenomenon) and Norways role in space research. To really
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Archbishops Palace
The 12th-century archbishops residence (Erkebispegården), commissioned around 1160 and Scandinavias oldest secular building, is beside the cathedral. In its west wing, Norways crown jewels shimmer. Its museum is in the same compound. After visiting the well-displayed statues, gargo
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