Natural and cultural history

Bergen

Bergen Museum - The Cultural History Collections

Collections ranging form the Age of antiquity and the Middle Ages right up to the present day. West Norway is particularly well represented. Archaeological finds, urban and rural history collections, a textile section and a rich ethnographic collection.
Address: Håkon Sheteligsplass 10, 5007 Bergen
Telephone: 55 58 31 40
Email: post@bm.uib.no

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Bergen

Bergen Museum - The Natural History Collections

Extensive, partly restored old zoological collection. Botanical and geological exhibitions. Botanical garden.
Address: Muséplass 3, 5007 Bergen
Telephone: 55 58 29 20
Email: post@bm.uib.no

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Bergen

Bergen School Museum - Bergen City Museum

Housed in a school building from 1706 in the centre of town, Bergen School Museum welcomes you to a trip through the history of education. Learn about our educational system, and experience how the classroom view of the outside world has changed.
Address: Lille Øvregate 38, 5018 Bergen
Telephone: 55 58 80 10
Email: skolemuseet@bymuseet.no

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Fjell

Fjell Fortress - Museum Vest

Festung Norwegen. In 1942, Hitler gave the order to build the Atlantic Wall, a 2.685km, continuous coastal defence that stretched from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Pyrenees in the south. It was built to defend German-occupied Europe against invasion from the British.
Address: Festningsvegen, 5357 Fjell
Telephone: 56 33 54 54
Email: post@museumvest.no

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Bergen

Fresco Hall - Tourist Information

Bergen's Tourist Information Centre is in The Fresco Hall situated in Vågsallmenning Square opposite the Fish Market. The building itself is one of the city's art treasures. In these beautiful and spacious surroundings, information is available about what to do in Bergen and all of Fjord Norway.
Address: Vågsallmenningen 1, 5014 Bergen

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Bergen

Horda Museum - Bergen City Museum

Folk museum featuring agriculture, fishing, archaeology, arts and crafts. The exhibitions and the collection of tapestries made by Ragna Breivik / Gerhard Munthe are open all year. The museum has a fine collection of traditional houses from Western Norway.
Address: Hordnesveien 24, 5244 Fana
Telephone: 55 11 29 00
Email: hordamuseet@bymuseet.no

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Bergen

Leprosy Muesum - Bergen City Museum

St. George's Hospital was a hospital for lepers from 1411 to 1946. The Leprosy Museum shows how leprosy became a serious health problem in some areas of Norway during the 19th century, and also how the patients lived at the old hospital.
Address: Kong Oscarsgate 59, 5017 Bergen
Telephone: 55 96 11 55
Email: lepramuseet@bymuseet.no

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Sund

The North Sea Trafficking Museum, Telavåg - War Museum

The Gestapo’s revenge. On 30 April 1942, the tiny coastal community of Telavåg was deleted from the map when the Germans discovered the role the village people played in the illicit trafficking of men across the North Sea. This, coupled with the killing of a Norwegian agent and two German officers, triggered the Telavåg tragedy, one of Europe’s worst war catastrophes.
Address: 5380 TÆLAVÅG
Telephone: 56 32 74 40
Email: nordsjofartmuseet@museumvest.no

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Bergen

Ulriken643

The Unriken643 Panoramic Tour takes you by cable car to the highest of Bergen’s famous ‘Seven Mountains’. The tour takes you to spectacular scenery and mountain terrain 643 metres above the city streets.
Address: Ulriken 1, 5009 Bergen
Telephone: 53 643 643
Email: post@ulriken.no

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Bergen

Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Milde

The Arboretum, founded in 1971, occupies an area of 125 acres, part of which is planted with a variety of foreign trees and shrubs. Good walking in wooded surroundings and spots for swimming.
Address: Mildeveien 240, 5259 Hjellestad
Telephone: 55 98 72 50
Email: post@sah.uib.no

Bergen

Gamlehaugen, King Harald's Bergen Residence

King Harald's official residence in Bergen. Built at the turn of the century, this impressive house was the home of Prime Minister Christian Michelsen.
Address: Gamlehaugveien 10, 5231 Paradis
Telephone: 55 92 51 20
Email: post@gamlehaugen.no

Askøy

Herdla Museum

A museum of culture-, nature- and war history. Exhibition on the German occupation of the 2. World War depicting the airbase at Herdla. Exhibition and documentary of the birdsanctuary at Herdla. Guided tours in Norwegian and English. Documentary films with English and German subtitles.
Address: 5315 Herdla
Telephone: 56 14 51 50
Email: herdla@museumvest.no

Os

Lysekloster - Monastery

Ruins of a Cistercian Abbey built in 1146 as a "daughter" monastery to Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, England. Partly demolished by Erik Rosenkrantz in 1560 who used the materials for the Rosenkrantz tower.
Address: 5215 Lysekloster
Telephone: 55 90 21 54

Bergen

Museum of Norwegian Knitting Industry

The old knitwear factory (1858-1989) has now re-opened as a new museum, the only one of its kind in Norway. Visitors can see the whole process from spinning the wool to the finished product. Film, café, museum shop and textile exhibitions.
Address: Salhusvegen 201, 5107 Salhus
Telephone: 55 25 10 80
Email: norsk.trikotasjemuseum@muho.no

Bergen

Railway Museum & Steam Railway

Old steam locomotive running along the 18 km line between Garnes and Midtun in Bergen. Railway Museum and souvenir shop at Garnes Station.
Address: Garnes Stasjon, Tunesveien 8, 5264 Garnes
Telephone: 55 91 77 80
Email: vossebanen@njk.no

Bergen

St. Jørgens Kirke

The church forms part of the old leprosy hospital buildings built in the Middle Ages. It was rebuilt after the great fire in 1702.
Address: Kong Oscarsgate 59, 5017 Bergen
Telephone: 55 96 11 55
Email: lepra@uib.no

Lindås

The Heathland Centre at Lygra

The Heathland Centre is a visitors centre for cultural landscape on the European coast of the Atlantic. These types of landscapes are a 5000 years old heritage from the struggle by coastal people for their living.
Address: Ytre Lygra, 5912 Seim
Telephone: 56 35 64 10
Email: post@lynheisenteret.no

Radøy

Western Norway Emigration Centre

The Western Norway Emigration Centre includes the emigrant church, Brampton Lutheran Church, brought over from North Dakota in the USA and an emigration archive for Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. A schoolhouse, pioneer's house, town hall, prison, doctor's surgery and schoolteacher's house from pioneer times have also been brought home and rebuilt.
Address: 5939 Sletta
Telephone: 56 37 20 00
Email: post@utvandringssenter.no