The Arctic University Museum of Norway — Attraction in Tromsø

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...

Et Museum full historieforfalskning. Feilen blir inte mindre om om flere begår samme feil. En kan godt lage alskens greier, bare lage om hva som helst. Tilpasse historien etterhvert som den går framover.. lappene hevdor at dom kom hit først.. Hmm.. .. Hvorfor er det da inte et eneste lappisk motiv på alle helleritningene i hele Skandinavien?For di spør om fjordene er åpen om natta......

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...