Museum sights in Bergen
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Natural History Collection
A main university museum.
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Cultural History Collection
The Cultural History Collection has Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut cultures and displays covering everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies.
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Maritime Museum
Bergen’s Maritime Museum is essential to understanding the history of this seafaring city. It features models of ships from Viking times to the present and exhibits tracing Norway’s maritime history.
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Schøtstuene
An essential complement to the Hanseatic Museum, Schøtstuene is a reconstruction of one of the original assembly halls where the fraternity of Hanseatic merchants once met for their business meetings and beer guzzling.
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Old Bergen Museum
The open-air Old Bergen Museum, 4km north of the city centre, boasts a fine collection of 35 structures from the 18th and 19th centuries. A 30-minute walk from Torget will get you there or take a bus (No 20-23). Admission to the grounds is free and they are open all year.
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University Museums
The two main university museums include: the Cultural History Collection with Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut cultures and displays covering everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies; and the Natural History Collection.
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Bryggens Museum
The archaeological museum was built on the site of Bergen’s first settlement, and the 800-year-old foundations unearthed during construction have been incorporated into the exhibits, which include medieval tools, pottery, skulls and runes. The permanent exhibition documenting Bergen in around 1300 is particularly interesting.
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Railway Museum
From early June to early September, another popular excursion is the Sunday tour by veteran steam train between Garnes and Midtun. It begins at 9am on the historic ferry M/S Bruvik from Bryggen to the railway museum at Garnes and from there the teak-panelled train inches 18km to Midtun. The whole trip takes four hours (adult/child Nkr200/100). The train trip alone costs Nkr120/60 return.
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Hanseatic Museum
This terrific museum provides a window onto the world of Hanseatic traders. Housed in a rough-timber building from 1704, it starkly reveals the contrast between the austere living and working conditions of Hanseatic merchant sailors and apprentices, and the lifestyles of the management. Highlights include the manager’s office, quarters, private liquor cabinet and summer bedroom; the apprentices’ quarters where beds were shared by two men; the fish storage room, which pressed and processed over a million pounds (450,000kg) of fish a month; and the fiskeskrue, or fish press, which pressed the fish into barrels.
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Bergen Art Museum
Beside the Lille Lungegårdsvann lake, this art museum exhibits a superb collection of 18th- and 19th-century pieces by international and Norwegian artists, including Munch, Miró, Picasso, Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
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