![Panorama Kon-Tiki](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Panorama_Kon-Tiki.jpg)
The Kon-Tiki Museum ( no, Kon-Tiki Museet) is a museum in the
Bygdøy
Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy belongs to the borough of Frogner; historically Bygdøy was part of Aker Municipality and became part of Oslo in 1948.
Bygdøy is a popular ...
peninsula in
Oslo, Norway
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...
. It houses
vessels and maps from the ''
Kon-Tiki
The ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named ''Kon-Tiki'' after the Inca god Viracocha, fo ...
'' expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books.
It was opened in a provisional building in 1949. In 1957, the current building—designed by architects
F. S. Platou and
Otto Torgersen—was opened.
[ In 1978, an extension of the museum designed by Torgersen was opened.
The museum was originally built to house the ''Kon-Tiki'', a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer ]Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography.
Heyerdahl is notable for his ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000&nb ...
used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. Another boat in the museum is the ''Ra II'', a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the ''Ra II'' from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat ''Ra'' failed.
Beneath the raft is a model of the whale shark that the crew encountered on the voyage.
The Kon-Tiki Museum is situated near several other museums including the Fram Museum
The Fram Museum ( no, Frammuseet) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway.
Fram Museum is in an area with several other museums including the Kon-Tiki Museum, th ...
, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History
Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History), at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. It also incorporates a large open- ...
, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum
The Norwegian Maritime Museum ( no, Norsk Maritimt Museum) is located at Bygdøynesveien on the Bygdøy peninsula, on the western side of Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Maritime Museum is situated near several other museums, including the Fram Muse ...
.
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Bygdøy
1949 establishments in Norway
Maritime museums in Norway
Museums established in 1949
Museums in Oslo
Thor Heyerdahl
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