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Museums / Memorials: Bergen Museum - Natural & Cultural History
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  • Updated By FletteMette on August 22, 2005
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  • The Natural History Museum - Bergen
    The Natural History Museum
    by FletteMette
    Bergen Museum is part of the University of Bergen, and has two separate departments - The Natural History Collections and The Cultural History Collections. The Museum is located in two buildings from 1865 and 1927 - and surrounded by a beautiful botanical garden.

    The rather old-fashioned Natural History museum focuses (naturally..;-) on geology, zoology and botany - one of the most popular displays contains massive whale skeletons hanging from the ceiling. The Cultural History department does of course have a Viking Age exhibition, as well as displays of other archaeological and ethnographical material from Norway and abroad.

    Entrance fee: NOK 40
    Senior citizens: NOK 20
    Children / students free
    Free with the Bergen Card

    Opening Hours:
    01.09.-31.05: Tue-Fri 10-14, Sat-Sun 11-15
    01.06.-31.08: Tue-Fri 10-16, Sat-Sun 11-16
    Mondays closed.

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  • Phone: +47 55 58 93 60
  • Directions: The natural history collections: Muséplass 3 The cultural history collections: Haakon Sheteligs plass 10
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    Museums / Memorials: Bergen Kunstmuseum - Bergen Art Museum
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  • Bergen Art Museum - Bergen
    Bergen Art Museum
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    You'll find the Bergen Art Museum in three buildings (Lysverket, Rasmus Meyers Collections and Stenersen Collection), all set by the lake called Lille Lungegårdsvann, right in the city centre. This is one of the largest art museums in Scandinavia.

    The museum does display some of Edvard Munch's works - by far Norway's most famous painter. Works by Edvard Munch, as well as other Norwegian painters, from 1700 until 1915, can be seen in Rasmus Meyers Collections. At Lysverket, you'll find Norwegian and international art from the seventeenth century until today. The Stenersen building houses temporary exhibitions.

    Opening Hours:
    Monday - Sunday 11 - 17
    (Closed Mondays between September 15th and May 14th)

    Admission Prices:
    Adults 50 NOK
    Students 35 NOK
    Children 0 - 16 Free

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  • Address: Rasmus Meyers allé 3, 7 and 9
  • Directions: Three buildings by Lille Lungegårdsvann, in Byparken right in the city centre.
  • Website: http://www.bergenartmuseum.no/default_en.html
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    Museums / Memorials: Hanseatic Museum
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  • Hanseatic Museum - Bergen
    Hanseatic Museum
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    The Hanseatic Museum is one of the oldest and best preserved wooden buildings in Bergen, furnished in the style of the 1700. The museum show how was the life of the Hanseatic merchants in the town. Near the museum there is the Hanseatic Assembly Rooms where the Hanseatic merchants gathered for warm meals, held cour meetings and taught the apprentices.

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  • Address: Bryggen
  • Website: www.hanseatisk.museum.no
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    Museums / Memorials: Bryggen Museum
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  • Bryggen Museum - Bergen
    Bryggen Museum
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    The Bryggen Museum is based on the findings of the archeological excavations of Bryggen between 1855 and 1972. The foundations of the oldest buildings in Bergen (from the 12th century) can be seen, as well some European ceramics, runic inscriptions and much more

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  • Address: Dreggsalm 3
  • Phone: (+47)55 58 80 10
  • Website: www.uib.no/mbu
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    Museums / Memorials: Vikings??
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  • the Midgard Rune - Bergen
    the Midgard Rune
    by daarth
    Many visitors come to Norway expecting to see a lot about Vikings everywhere. They then are surprised that Norwegians have not made a tourist industry out of this. You will of course find a few Viking souvenirs at the souvenir shop. But the Viking age is just one part of the Norwegian culture. The Vikings were those that travelled to other countries to conquere and explore. Those that didn't go were simply not called Vikings. The word Viking is also a verb and loosely means conqueror.

    If you are interested in the historical part of the Vikings, you will find a Viking exhibition at The Cultural History Collections (museum)

    For more info on Vikings, use the link below.

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  • Address: Håkon Sheteligsplass 10
  • Directions: Up on the "University hill" Nygårdshøyden
  • Website: http://www.viking.no/
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    Museums / Memorials: Bergen Art Museum
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  • Bergen Art Museum - Bergen
    Bergen Art Museum
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    The Bergen Art Museum is presents in three separate buildings next to the Lille Lungegarsvann Lake. In the Lysverket you can see Norwegian and international art from the 15th century untill the present day, including Russian icons, Dutch baroque paintings and much more; in the Rasmus Mayer Collection there is a collection of Norwegian masterpieces from the 18th century to 1915 with paintigs og Munch, Dahl, Tidemand and Gude. In Steberseb there are temporary exhibitions.

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  • Address: Rasmus Meyers
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    Museums / Memorials: Witches!
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  • The burning of witches. - Bergen
    The burning of witches.
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    A dark side of Bergen's history is the burning of witches. This stone is in memory of the public murders of 350 victims in the years from 1500-1750.

    If I am not mistaken, this is the only instance in the world were a government has made an official apology for the witch-hunt.

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  • Directions: Near the aquarium on the tip of Nordnes
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    Museums / Memorials: Ugh, ugh...
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  • An Indian totem pole! - Bergen
    An Indian totem pole!
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    At the Nordnes park you will find the unexpected: an Indian totem pole! It was a gift from Bergen’s twin city, Seattle at Bergens 900 Year anniversary in 1970.

    Bergen has more Twin Cities:
    Aarhus, Denmark
    Turku (Åbo), Finland
    Reykjavik, Iceland
    Goteborg, Sweden
    Tallinn, Estonia
    Newcastle - U.K.
    Asmara - Eritrea

    I think there are some more...

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  • Directions: Near the aquarium
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    Museums / Memorials: Bergen Kunsthall
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  • Bergen Kunsthall - Bergen
    Bergen Kunsthall
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    Bergen Kunsthall is Bergen's largest art venue for contemporary art. When I visited it in August 2005 there were Elmgren and Dragseth.

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  • Address: Rasmus Meyers
  • Website: www.kunsthall.no
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    Museums / Memorials: The Art Museum
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  • Lille Lungegårdsvann and Kunstmuseum - Bergen
    Lille Lungegårdsvann and
    Kunstmuseum
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    Bergen Kunstmuseum at the close vicinity of the center has one the largest art collections in Scandinvavia. The collections include art works from the 15th century to contemporary. The main collections are:
    - The City Art Collections with paintings of Norwegian and international artists from the 19th and 10th century
    - Stenersens Collection with 250 paintings by contemporary artists including works by Picasso and Munch
    - Rasmus Meyers Collection with Norwegian paintings from the 18th century to beginning of the 20th century.

    The museum is open 11 - 17 every day, except for Mondays 15th Sept. - 14th May.

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  • Address: Rasmus Meyers allé 3, 7 and 9, 5015 Bergen
  • Directions: This three-building complex near the Lille Lungegårdsvann bond close to the center is pretty much visible and hard to miss.
  • Website: www.bergenartmuseum.no/default_en.html
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