The Norwegian Maritime Museum () is located at Bygdøynesveien on the

Bygdøy Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy is part of the borough of Frogner. It historically was part of Aker Municipality and became part of Oslo in 1948. Bygdøy is a popular recr ...

peninsula, on the western side of

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. The Norwegian Maritime Museum is situated near several other museums, including the

Fram Museum The Fram Museum () 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, the Norwegian Mu ...

; the

Kon-Tiki Museum The Kon-Tiki Museum () is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It houses vessels and maps from the '' Kon-Tiki'' expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. It was opened in a provisional building in 1949. In 1957, 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 ...

; and the Viking Ship Museum. The Norwegian Maritime Museum is operated in conjunction with Norwegian Folk Museum.

Overview

The museum was founded in 1914 and previously known as the ''Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum''. The exhibits on coast culture and maritime history cover a number of subjects including ship building, boat models, fishing, marine archeology, and shipping. The video "Maritime Norway" by

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and a library are also a part of the museum experience. Additionally the museum has a marine archaeological department. The museum also displays a collection of more than 40 maritime paintings by notable artists.

Ships

The ''Stavanger'' and the ''Svanen'' are on display. The ''Stavanger'' was designed by Colin Archer for the

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. The three-masted schooner ''Svanen'' was built during the winter of 1915–1916 and saw service with the Norwegian merchant fleet. From 1972, the ''

Gjøa ''Gjøa'' is a museum ship and was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in 1906. History Construction The square-sterned sloop o ...

'' was displayed in the Norwegian Maritime Museum. The ship was the first vessel to transit the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, near the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. The eastern route along the Arctic ...

in the 1903–06

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expedition of

Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegians, Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Am ...

. In 2009, the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the

signed an agreement for the Fram Museum to take over the exhibition of the ''Gjøa''. It is currently displayed in a separate building at Fram Museum.

Notable past directors

* Gunnar Isachsen * Per G. Norseng

Gallery

File:Lars Lauritz Larsen Haaland - Fiskere Ved Kvitsøy - IMG 9359.jpg, ''Fiskere Ved Kvitsøy''
Lars Lauritz Larsen Haaland File:Reinholdt Boll Kronprindsesse Louise.jpg, ''Kronprindsesse Louise''
Reinholdt Boll File:John William Edy - Christiana - IMG 9285.jpg, ''Christiana''
John William Edy File:Carl Wilhelm Barth - Skip i rom sjø - IMG 9300.jpg, ''I Skip I Rom Sjø''
Carl Wilhelm Barth File:Eilert Adelsteen Normann - Dampskipsanløp I Lofoten - IMG 9337.jpg, ''Dampskipsanløp I Lofoten''
Eilert Adelsteen Normann

References

External links

Norwegian Maritime Museum – Official site
Bygdøy Maritime museums in Norway Museums in Oslo 1914 establishments in Norway {{Norway-museum-stub