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Fredrikstad Museum
The Fredrikstad Museum is housed in the same building as the tourist office in Gamlebyen and is well worth a browse. The downstairs area houses temporary exhibitions, while upstairs you'll find scale models of the Old Town and an interesting collection of relics from three centuries of Fredrikstad's civilian, military and industrial activities. Also on the top floor is a military museum.
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Hvalfanger (Whaling) Museum
This small whaling Hvalfanger (Whaling) Museum is run by proud old men only too keen to show you around the old photos, the formidable whaling guns once used in the Antarctic and the even more formidable penis of a blue whale. No English is spoken and all labels are in Norwegian.
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Isegran
Fredrikstad Museum has another section on Isegran, an islet across the Glomma. Norse sagas mention the 13th-century fortress of Isegran, which later 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. It's also the site of a small museum on local boatbuilding (from the time when boats were lovingly hand-crafted from wood).
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Kongsten Festning
On what was once called 'Gallows hill' stands the flower-festooned Kongsten Festning . Dating from 1685, it once served as a lookout and warning post for the troops at nearby Gamlebyen. Although it can get overrun on summer weekends, this otherwise lonely and appealingly unkempt spot is a fun place to scramble around the turrets, embankments, walls and stockade, or just sit in the sun and soak up the silence.
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