Museum sights in Grimstad

1. Ibsenhuset Museum

   • Grimstad, Norway
   • Sights › Museum

   Norway’s favourite playwright, Henrik Ibsen, arrived here in January 1844. The house where he worked as a pharmacist’s apprentice, and where he lived and first cultivated his interest in writing, has been converted into the Ibsenhuset Museum. It contains a re-created pharmacy and many of the writer’s belongings and is one of southern Norway’s more interesting museums, with everything you needed to know from Ibsen’s life and work. There’s also a library with the writer’s complete works. His 1861 poem Terje Vigen and his 1877 drama Pillars of Society take place in the Skerries offshore from Grimstad.

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2. Grimstad Maritime Museum

   • Grimstad, Norway
   • Sights › Museum

   This important museum, in the office of the 1842 Hasseldalen shipyard, provides a glimpse into Grimstad’s history during ‘the days of the white sails’. While you’re there it’s worth climbing the short track from the end of Batteriveien up the Binabben hill for a view over Grimstad. Make sure you visit the Ibsenhuset Museum first or the combined ticket won’t work.

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