For someone like me this museum is unique and very, very exciting, as it documents in great detail the exhaustive scientific work and the many adventures of a figure like no other: Thor Heyerdahl. His views challenged established History as it was by the mid 1900s. He went about to prove that ancient man could have achieved much more than it was then considered possible. Having seen pyramids in Egypt and also in the Yucatan peninsula, at the same latitude but some 10,000 kms away, he hinted that this building knowledge could have been taken all the way across the waters. He then constructed a raft made of papyrus reed and rope (called Ra), just like ancient Egyptians would do, and let himself float from the Moroccan coast for 5,000 kms, almost reaching Barbados, until he stopped the expedition in order not to risk the life of his crew. He commanded a second reed raft to artisans living in Lake Titicaca and using the same techniques of people living in the Nile and Lake Tchad, half world apart and supposedly having never been in touch with one another. This time he went all the way, sailing for 6,100 kms and reaching Barbados in 57 days. The demonstration had been done: it could have been done, these primitive devices were sea-worthy and there was a current pushing them from North Africa to the Caribbean (something that Columbus was also aware of). In the Pacific he went about to demonstrate his point of view in the same way. In an era before DNA testing could tell us a great deal of what we now know, his guess was that ancient populations would have crossed the Pacific from East to West. Going deep into his research he even lived for one year in an isolated island in the Pacific. Some years on he launched his most famed expedition, the Kon-Tiki. This is all very documented in this museum - the raft, the tools, the maps - in a touching and exciting exhibit which evokes the incredible courage of Heyerdahl and his companions, the tremendous hardship they went through, as well as his persistence and his sheer determination.