The Arctic University Museum of Norway
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Tromsø University Museum is the oldest scientific institution in Northern Norway. The museum has 80,000-90,000 visitors annually.
attractions: Telegrafbukta, Folkeparken, Tromso southern beach, Extra Bjerkaker, REMA 1000 STRANDVEGEN, Wandering Owl, Sydspissen, Tromsø Guide, restaurants:
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Tromsø University Museum is the oldest scientific institution in Northern Norway. The museum has 80,000-90,000 visitors annually.
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A beautiful place:Lǖ sselfjord
EvelynEvelyn
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🐳 University Museum of Bergen, Enormous Whale Skeleton
RobinsonRobinson
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RobinsonRobinson
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The best museum in Tromsø so far! Parking is free on weekends, weekdays 31kr an hour limited to 4 hours. There's a nice coffee shop, bathrooms, lockers and coat area. Staff is really nice and informative. I suggest spending at least 3-4 hours to be able to see, hear and read all the interesting info provided. There's 3 different exhibitions, we stared at our favorite one - geology! It was so interesting to learn about rocks, different metals they consist, how amazingly durable some are that are still here millions years later!!! Learn about the numerous mass extinctions the earth has been through and why. There's also an amazing movie explaining how the nortern lights created. 2nd exhibit is unnaturally, super important, with emphasis on how things have changed in Norway (whale hunting, minke whale hunting which sadly resarted again in 1993). Our plastic oceans and seas, the different bird species and when they migate here. The 3rd exhibit is about the Sami and kven people extremely interesting. Different laungauges they speak, their traditions and sadly how Norway tried to "norwegize" them. I highly recommend taking the time reading all the stories from the children who were uprooted from their families to boarding schools. It's a very real, raw, sad exhibit. If you have time for 1 museum while in town that's the one!
Rainbow ChaserRainbow Chaser
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A fabulous museum, easily accessed by bus from the city centre, and located near Telegrafbukta (Tromsø south beach). This museum had a cloakroom and free toilets. This museum had a small shop. We enjoyed the exhibits, the northern lights graphics in the motion picture theatre help to explain them, and the geology exhibit about the world is made is very smooth and we'll designed. It's nice that the museum wasn't all about northern lights, as on our trip it also included exhibition on Kvan and Sami people's, both historically (description in Norwegian only no English) and now (in both Norwegian and English). Well worth a visit, and walk round to the beach afterwards if the weather is good as the beach and park are easily worth the bus ride on their own.
Bee HBee H
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Really an enjoyable experience, if you have any intrest in history and early beginnings, then visiting here is a must , compact set out on 3 levels but compelling and with some great visuals and actual fossils to help give a real sense to back up all the fascinating information The information boards are not too over the top with writing. The top level is an interesting look at Sami people and languages in Norway ,personally very intresting, simple but intriguing exhibition, which then leads into an full exhibition about the Sami people As with the polar museum, I got both tickets for around £8.40 and you do not need to visit in the same day which is great if you have time in Tromso. Well worth a visit
David BarlowDavid Barlow
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