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St Olavs Church
King Håkon Håkonssons huge stone church, about 5km south of Haugesund, was dedicated to St Olav in 1250 and has helped guide sailors through the strait of Karmsund for more than 750 years. The adjacent 7.2m spire, known as the Virgin Marys Needle , leans perilously towards the chur
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Ringve Music Museum
The Ringve Museum is Norways national museum for music and musical instruments. The Russian-born owner was a devoted collector of rare and antique musical instruments, which music students demonstrate. You can also browse the old barn with its rich collection of instruments from ar
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Nobel Institute
It is unclear why Nobel chose Norway to administer the Peace Prize, but whatever the reason, it is a committee of five Norwegians, appointed for six-year terms by the Norwegian Storting (parliament), that chooses the winner each year. Their meetings, held in a room of the Nobel Ins
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Moskenesstraumen Strait
Beyond the campground at the southern limit of Å, theres an excellent hillside view of Værøy island, across the waters. The mighty maelstroms created by tidal flows between the two islands were first described 2000 years ago by Pytheas and later appeared as fearsome adversaries on
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Agder Natural History Museum & Botanic Gardens
The winding paths through the established 50-hectare park at Gimle Estate lead through a botanic garden that also contains rocks, minerals, stuffed animals and greenhouses containing the largest collection of cacti in Norway. The estate house has 19th-century period interiors and e
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Lågdal Folk Museum
This folk museum, a 10-minute walk southeast of the train station, houses a collection of 32 period farmhouses around which sheep, goats and pigs frolic. Inside the main building is a WWII resistance museum and a re-creation of 19th-century and early 20th-century Kongsberg, complet
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Sámi National Museum
Exhibits at the Sami National Museum, also called the Sami Collection, include displays of colourful, traditional Sami clothing, tools and artefacts, and works by contemporary Sami artists. Outdoors, you can roam among a cluster of traditional Sami constructions and follow a short
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Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum
In an abandoned herring-oil factory (romantically named Neptune despite its stark functionality), the Norwegian Fishing Industry Museum traces the life of a fish from the deep sea to the kitchen table. Theres also a childrens exhibition about the goings-on on the sea floor, and a s
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Ceavccageadge
At Mortensnes , on the E75, about 15km east of Verangerbotn, you can stroll towards the shore amid traces of early Sami culture. At the western end, past burial sites, the remains of homesteads and a reconstructed turf hut, is the namesake ceavccageadge, a pillar standing near the
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Norwegian Olympic Museum
The excellent Olympic museum is at the Håkons Hall ice-hockey venue. On the ground floor there is a well-presented display covering the ancient Olympic Games, as well as all of the Olympic Games of the modern era, with a focus on the exploits of Norwegian athletes and the Lillehamm
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Christiansholm Fortress
Strandpromenadens hulking centrepiece is the distinctive Christiansholm Fortress. Built by royal decree between 1662 and 1672 to keep watch over the strategic Skagerrak Straits and protect the city from pirates and rambunctious Swedes, the construction featured walls up to 5m thick
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Namsskogan Familiepark
A long way from anywhere – its 40km south of Namsskogan, which is, in turn, 125km south of Mosjøen along the Arctic Highway – the Namsskogan Familiepark is a great way to break up the long journey north. Home to an impressive array of Arctic wildlife – highlights include, reindeer,
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Senjatrollet
True, there cant be much competition outside Scandinavia. But the Senja Troll, 18m high and weighing in at 125,000kg, is the worlds biggest troll, attested by the Guinness Book of Records . Theres a tractor and railway carriage for kids to clamber on and a cafe with shelf upon shel
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Vangskyrkja
Voss’ stone church occupies the site of an ancient pagan temple. A Gothic-style stone church was built here in the mid-13th century. Although the original stone altar and unique wooden spire remain, the Lutheran Reformation of 1536 saw the removal of many original features. The 192
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Borgarsyssel Museum
This excellent Østfold county museum lies in the town of Sarpsborg (14km northeast of Fredrikstad). The open-air display contains 30 period buildings from various parts of the country and includes a vast collection of cultural art and artefacts. It also has a herb garden, a petting
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Nesseby Church
Along one of the prettiest stretches of the E75 (a nationally designated Tourist Route, see www.turistveg.no), the lovely white church of Nesseby sits far out on the shoreline against the dramatic backdrop of distant mountains. The church itself was built in 1858 and was one of the
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Sogn og Fjordane Kystmuseet
The first museum building is dedicated to fishing, including a model 1900 fishing familys home and exhibits on the foundation of the island as a small herring trading post barely 150 years ago. A second houses a collection of typical coastal boats. The Snorreankeret display – in a
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Norwegian Mining Museum
Set in a smelter dating from 1844 (the old furnaces survive in the basement), this museum tells Kongsbergs story with relics, models and mineral displays. In the same building, other sections include the Royal Mint , which was moved from Akershus Fortress in Oslo to the source of t
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Isegran
Norse sagas mention the 13th-century fortress of Isegran, an islet in the Glomma that became a further line of defence against Sweden in the mid-17th century. The ruins of a stone (originally wood) tower remain visible at the eastern end of the island. Its also the site of a small
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Adolfkanonen
Heres another biggest/furthest claim for Harstad: this formidable WWII weapon is the worlds largest land-based big gun, with a calibre of more than 40cm and a recoil force of 635 tonnes. Because it lies in a military area, youre obliged to take a guided tour of the site and to have
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