Lofoten Stockfish Museum
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Lofoten Stockfish Museum (''Lofoten Tørrfiskmuseum'') is located in the village of Å in the municipality of
Moskenes Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality comprises the southern part of the island of Moskenesøya in the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. Ot ...
, in the
Lofoten Lofoten () is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands. There are two towns, Svolvà ...
islands in the county of Nordland,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
. The Lofoten Stockfish Museum is devoted to the production of Norwegian stockfish, one of Norway's oldest export commodity. The Museum is located in an old fish landing station. The museum displays the process from when the fish is brought ashore until it is finally packaged and ready for export. There are two museums located at Ã… in Lofoten, the other being the
Norwegian Fishing Village Museum The Norwegian Fishing Village Museum (''Norsk Fiskeværsmuseum'') is a museum devoted to Norwegian fishing in the village of Å in the municipality of Moskenes in Lofoten in northern Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, ...
(''Norsk Fiskeværsmuseum''). ''Å i Lofoten'' (Arkinord)
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