Bergen Technical Museum — Attraction in Bergen

Small museum around everything technical. What the museum might miss in professionalism is more than made up by the highly motivated, enthusiastic and helpful volunteers. They spend time with us and the kids and explained everything from trams to the fully functional printer's room in the back. Highlight was 1 operating one of the historic presses creating a small picture page. Highlight 2 is of course the short tram right through the streets of Bergen. If you lived or visited eastern Berlin/Germany in the 1990s you might get nostalgic as the trams are former Berlin cars, purchased in 1993. The tram car ride was the kids favorite, the ride is included in the entrance fee. You can also use the tram to reach the museum, starting from the University Museum place. They plan on expanding the tram ride to the theater in Engen - tracks are layed, overhead wire still missing, but they plan to run it starting in a few weeks (from Aug 2022). As far as i understood, trams only runs Sundays...

The Bergen Technical Museum is located in the old tram shed built in 1913 at Møhlenpris in Bergen, Norway. It is owned and run by various local membership groups with each their own specialized collections, which is collectively displayed in an old tram depot. In the tram shed, apart from their tram collection, there are classic cars, motorcycles, a locomotive and two funiculars. A ships steam engine is operating from time to time, and their printshop has some of the oldest printing machines in Norway. It is open and operating 1,5 km historic tram line first operated from 1911. Since 2022 the museum has offered scheduled tram services between the museum and the city center, just on some weekends. Departure time from the Trikkehallen at Møhlenpris, stop along the way at Muséplassen and St. John's Tickets: Adults NOK 150.00 Under...

This place is great. The only reason for 4 starts instead of 5 is that this museum has the potential to become even better, and it's only open one day a week. It's a fairly small operation housed in an old tram repair depot, staffed entirely by volunteers, but they have an amazing variety of items on display, from trams and trains, autos and trucks to steam engines and even a working print shop. My thanks to the volunteer that gave me a "behind the scenes" tour of the tram repair workshop, which included a forge and lots of cool blacksmithing equipment. Let's not forget the functioning tram line, included in the admission price, that takes visitors on a short ride from the museum into Bergen's city center. A great way to spend a...