Norwegian Olympic Museum description and photos - Norway: Lillehammer (Topic)

Norwegian Olympic Museum description and photos - Norway: Lillehammer. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Norwegian Olympic Museum.

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The Norwegian Olympic Museum was officially opened in 1997 in Lillehammer. It is the only such museum in the whole of Northern Europe. Here is the complete history of the Olympic Games from 776 BC. up to the present day. The permanent exhibition, divided into three sections, has more than 7000 exhibits.

The Historical Hall is dedicated to the Olympic Games held in Greece at the sacred site of Olympia, as evidenced by ancient written sources. In 393 BC, after the adoption of Christianity by Greece, games were banned, and Olympia lost its importance in the life of the local population, and eventually disappeared altogether as a result of natural disasters. Only after a millennium and a half, in 1884, French Baron Pierre de Coubertin began to make his dream of continuing the Olympic Games a reality. The first modern Summer Games were held in 1896 in Athens, and the Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924.

The Olympic Hall presents an extensive collection of coins, medals and stamps, as well as photographs of the best athletes in Norway.

A separate hall of the museum is dedicated to the 17th Olympic Games, which were held in Lillehammer in 1994. 67 countries took part in them. The exposition immerses visitors in the magical atmosphere of those games.

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