University Museum - Museum Of History — Attraction in Bergen

This review refers only to the natural science part of the exhibition, as the rest was closed for renovations. The museum is housed in a beautiful, old and well-maintained building. As a result, however, it is not handicapped accessible in any way. Bags or backpacks must be placed in lockers, but this is free and no deposit is required. There are very nice and interesting exhibits and a lot of stuffed animals. Unfortunately, that's where the enthusiasm ends. You don't have to be a biologist to realize that the exhibits are sorted and presented in a didactically disastrous way. If I didn't know the systematics, I wouldn't have been a bit smarter afterwards. The texts are arranged in a confusing way, partly difficult to assign to the exhibits, but at least in Norwegian and English. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see where Norwegian ends and English begins. The glass panes of most of the showcases are not really smooth, so that one is prevented from looking at them by optical distortions. A lot of money was spent here and proved that this is not enough. Museum pedagogically a disaster. Completely unsuitable for children. Nothing to touch, try out or experience. During the tour, one repeatedly finds photos of more or less naked women, whose meaning remains completely unclear. In addition, they tried to scientifically substantiate the woken gender mania with absurd examples. Unfortunately, one is no longer safe from ideology even in a natural history...

In the University Museum of Bergen are located several exhibitions concerning prehistory and history of Western Norway (Vestlandet). Downstairs are presented nice exhibitions dedicated to the Viking Age and Stone Age. At exhibition related to Viking period is shown the history of different artefacts (e.g. jewellery, weaponry) which were robbed on 14th August 2017 and retrieved in October 2017. This fascinating exhibition presents also basic problems connected with the conservation of various archaeological finds. Stone Age exhibition presents the various finds dated to this period which were discovered in Norway.

At other exhibitions in the University Museum of Bergen are presented in an interesting way medieval art (e.g. beautifully decorated portals), the art of western Norway and history of theatre.

In my opinion, during the visit to the University Museum of Bergen, we can not only see nice exhibited finds but also learn a lots of interesting facts about prehistory and history of Western Norway. Totally...

Such a wonderful trip inside the museum in this windy and rainy day in Bergen. We had a short trip with a group of ladies in the museum. It's really big and spacious with organize specimens and displays. Useful and easy to understand of each information given to. You will get confused where to go first cause everything is very wild, very scientific and you definitely curious to yourself and would likely to stay longer cause 1 hour wont be enough, sadly. Friendly staffs, have a really nice wardrobe for jackets and bags. Hope you enjoy visiting the museum. And better to be there early cause 1 hour trip is very short and you will get a cliffhanger feeling if you dont see it everything.And dont forget to visit there cafe so cozy and serves nice food and...