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Museums & Art Galleries in Oslo in generalNewest Review: ... the old-fashioned type: When I visited it a few years ago (it may have changed since), the objects were displayed with little background information, and the descriptions were rather short and not supplemented with much visual material, so if your background in Viking history is not so good, you may want to acquire a guide book. Still, the Viking boats themselves are impressive and certainly worth a visit, and the museum shop had a range of very good books on Viking history in several languages. A real explorer in the modern sense of the word was Roald Amundsen, antarctic explorer, who reached the South Pole before Scott in 1912. His ship... more |
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Are you an explorer, a discoverer who would have crossed the oceans in search for new lands, if only you had been born at least a hundred years earlier, long before package holidays to the Antarctic were available? If you are fascinated by exploring the oceans, then Bygdoy, the Museum Island in Oslo, is the place for you. In several museums, highlights of Norwegian naval history can be experienced. Norwegians have always been seafarers - not surprising for a country where you can't get far on land before you are stopped by a mountain, a glacier, or a fjord. Boats are among the most frequent Stone Age rock carvings in Norway. But the first Norwegian impact on ... Read the complete review

