Rating
4.1/5 (based on Google user reviews)
User Reviews
Jens Chr Brynildsen (4 months ago)
Classic Museum with confusing and underdeveloped exhibits. Lots of gold here (literally) but almost all the exhibits disappoint. It looks like they tend to build all exhibits around a single idea and then forget about the rest? For a historical museum, it seldom provides context. Instead it's full of (not all random) items and facts, so while you've seen lots, you cannot really remember much? It's too fragmented and unfocused to learn anything. Less than half the building is exhibits and 1/6th the space is a huge room for kids to play in. Overall, the museum offers tons of text, interactivity on the level of 20 year old web pages. Great artefacts on display, but not very engaging. Loved the temporary Samurai exhibit! Small, but very well made!
Classic Museum with confusing and underdeveloped exhibits. Lots of gold here (literally) but almost all the exhibits disappoint. It looks like they tend to build all exhibits around a single idea and then forget about the rest? For a historical museum, it seldom provides context. Instead it's full of (not all random) items and facts, so while you've seen lots, you cannot really remember much? It's too fragmented and unfocused to learn anything. Less than half the building is exhibits and 1/6th the space is a huge room for kids to play in. Overall, the museum offers tons of text, interactivity on the level of 20 year old web pages. Great artefacts on display, but not very engaging. Loved the temporary Samurai exhibit! Small, but very well made!
Mark Pitts (6 months ago)
This museum isn’t huge, but it has a great collection of Viking artifacts, a really large and interesting collection of gold coins, and some Egyptian artifacts. I was surprised by probably the largest collection of Samurai armor and weapons, as well as other artifacts, that I have seen anywhere in the world. If you are a fan of those historical figures, then don’t miss this collection. They have free lockers, several restroom, and a gift shop. Entrance fee is about $10 for adults.
This museum isn’t huge, but it has a great collection of Viking artifacts, a really large and interesting collection of gold coins, and some Egyptian artifacts. I was surprised by probably the largest collection of Samurai armor and weapons, as well as other artifacts, that I have seen anywhere in the world. If you are a fan of those historical figures, then don’t miss this collection. They have free lockers, several restroom, and a gift shop. Entrance fee is about $10 for adults.
aaron Z (7 months ago)
Only one floor space is dedicated to Norwegian history. Nevertheless, the Vikingr exhibit has some of the unique artifacts on Vikingr and Rune Stone.
Only one floor space is dedicated to Norwegian history. Nevertheless, the Vikingr exhibit has some of the unique artifacts on Vikingr and Rune Stone.
Assel Raiymbekova (8 months ago)
Me and my two children went here yesterday and enjoyed it greatly. The prices for adults and students are affordable and kids are free. The actual expositions and artifacts are all interesting and thought-provoking. The samurai section especially was both informative and interesting to look at. Not to mention the Viking section containing rare ancient artifacts which were amazing to look at. Besides the actual museum, the museum shop was also full of interesting books and trinkets. Overall a great experience.
Me and my two children went here yesterday and enjoyed it greatly. The prices for adults and students are affordable and kids are free. The actual expositions and artifacts are all interesting and thought-provoking. The samurai section especially was both informative and interesting to look at. Not to mention the Viking section containing rare ancient artifacts which were amazing to look at. Besides the actual museum, the museum shop was also full of interesting books and trinkets. Overall a great experience.
Bardia Haghighirad (9 months ago)
Visited this place today around 3 pm. It's open till 5 pm. Tickets were 100kr each. However, student tickets are available for 70kr per person. We were given a locker to leave our belongings prior to checking the museum. There are 4 floors on this musem. First floor is comprised of ancient Norwegian artifacts and sculptures as well as the statue of Jesus on the cross. While arriving on the second floor, we noticed Egyptian historical artifacts which were truely amazing. There was even a mumi. You could also see some historical gold coins. On the third floor, we saw the world's oldest rune stone. This was truely fascinating. Make sure you check it out. Now to the fourth floor. This floor was my favourite. It had fantastic samurai swords and figurings and artifacts from Japan. Everything was displayed flawlessly. I've added some photos of this experience, make sure to check them out. Overall, I'd give this museum a 9 out of 10 rating. Staff were very friendly, and place was clean and everything was explained with the greatest detail in both English and Norwegian languages. However, I deduct 1 point because of the amount of noise from kids messing about. I had expected that the staff would tell them to stop messing and running in the place just to keep the noise down. But that didn't happen.
Visited this place today around 3 pm. It's open till 5 pm. Tickets were 100kr each. However, student tickets are available for 70kr per person. We were given a locker to leave our belongings prior to checking the museum. There are 4 floors on this musem. First floor is comprised of ancient Norwegian artifacts and sculptures as well as the statue of Jesus on the cross. While arriving on the second floor, we noticed Egyptian historical artifacts which were truely amazing. There was even a mumi. You could also see some historical gold coins. On the third floor, we saw the world's oldest rune stone. This was truely fascinating. Make sure you check it out. Now to the fourth floor. This floor was my favourite. It had fantastic samurai swords and figurings and artifacts from Japan. Everything was displayed flawlessly. I've added some photos of this experience, make sure to check them out. Overall, I'd give this museum a 9 out of 10 rating. Staff were very friendly, and place was clean and everything was explained with the greatest detail in both English and Norwegian languages. However, I deduct 1 point because of the amount of noise from kids messing about. I had expected that the staff would tell them to stop messing and running in the place just to keep the noise down. But that didn't happen.
