Fram Ship Museum, Norwegian Maritime Museum, Kon-Tiki Museum, Viking Ship Museum, Ski Museum

On Sunday April 3, 2011 we all visited Bygdoy:

FRAM is the strongest wooden ship ever built and still holds the records for sailing farthest north and farthest south. The ship is there and we explored it.  We read how crew and their dogs lived and managed to survive in the coldest and most dangerous places on earth - the Arctic and the Antarctic.

 

The Norwegian Maritime Museum smells like cabbage and you can see fascinating environmental exhibitions about fishing, ship building, shipping, marine archeology and impressive collections of boat models and marine paintings. The museum's supervideograph presents Maritime Norway, a unique and fascinating panoramic view of maritime Norway. 

The Kon-Tiki Musuem is about Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) who gained worldwide fame when he crossed the Pacific Ocean on Kon-Tiki in 1947. He followed this up with spectacular expeditions on the reed boats Ra and Tigris. His recreations of prehistoric voyages showed that early man had mastered sailing before the saddle and wheel were invented.

 

 The Viking Ship Museum presents great Viking ship discoveries from Gokstad, Oseberg and Tune as well as other finds from Viking tombs around the Oslo Fjord.  The world's two best-preserved wooden Viking ships built in the 9th century. Small boats, sledges, cart with exceptional ornamentation. Implements, tools, harness, textiles and household utensils.

Holmenkollen Ski Museum and Tower a historic landmark in the Norwegian consciousness, Holmenkollen embodies more than a century of skiing tradition.  Inside the actual ski jump is the Holmenkollen Ski Museum, the world's oldest museum specialising in skis and 4,000 years of skiing history.  The observation  deck on top of the jump tower offers panoramic views of Oslo, of course when we where there it was  covered in a cloud and you couldn't see anything.