Bygdoy Museum Peninsula description and photos - Norway: Oslo (Topic)

Bygdoy Museum Peninsula description and photos - Norway: Oslo. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Bygdoy.

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The Bygde Peninsula is one of the most visited districts in Oslo, as it houses numerous museums: the Norwegian Folk Open Air Museum, the Viking Ship Museum, the Fram Museum and the Kon-Tiki Museum.

The oldest of them is the Viking Ship Museum, which contains amazing archaeological exhibits - ancient graceful ships on which the ancestors of the Norwegians sailed the seas around Europe and crossed the Atlantic to the shores of America, as well as numerous items from the Viking burials.

Another museum, which is called the Fram, houses the main exhibit of the ship of Friedthjof Nansen, built according to the drawings of the famous polar explorer especially for sailing in the harsh conditions of the Arctic. A quarter century later, another Norwegian traveler, Roald Amundsen, sailed on the Fram to the shores of Antarctica and then skiing was the first person to reach the South Pole.

But, perhaps, the most visited museum today is the Kon-Tiki Museum. This is a private museum owned by Thor Heyerdahl. It has two main exhibits - the Kon-Tiki raft and the papyrus boat `` Ra '', on which the brave Norwegian made his famous voyages across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

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