Best places: History museums in Oslo, Norway

19th-century polar exploration ship in museum with expedition exhibits & northern lights shows.

👍👍 You must visit this if you are a black metal lover and if you're in Oslo. I found a CD that I was impossible to find in my town. And I really liked visiting the meeting point of the Inner Circle.

Large open-air collection of Medieval buildings & indoor culture & lifestyle exhibits.

Museum detailing adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's life, with original reed boats & expedition artifacts.

Exhibitions & memorials commemorating the victims of the 2011 domestic terrorist attacks.

Founded in 1914, this interactive museum contains 20,700 sq m of science & technology exhibits.

This museum in Akershus Fortress showing Norway's military progression from Viking to present days.

Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel & other laureates with temporary exhibitions & a shop.

👍👍 When you visit, I would recommend that you ask someone to guide you around. It will help not only bring the story of the Bible to life, but will also explain a lot about the history of Norway and the surrounding countries including Sweden, Denmark, Germaney, Iceland, Greenland and others.

Shipping museum for marine archeology & paintings, plus boats, a cafe & terrace with fjord views.

😐 Interesting to learn the history of the 772 Jews deportation on the SS Donau back in 1942. At the beginning of the exhibition the ships Bell, which would have been rung as it departed on that fateful day (26th November), is prominently displayed. Could really do with more English Script to explain t...

Grand museum for Norwegian antiquities & coinage, plus Egyptian, Asian & African artifacts.