Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst
Trondheim
Run by artists, this gallery space showcases all that's innovative and experimental in the local and national art scene. In the manner of modern galleries…
Must-see attractions in Scandinavia
Turku & Finland's South Coast
At the edge of the village, Strömfors Ironworks is one of Finland’s oldest bruks, dating back to 1698. Today its red-stained buildings are an open-air…
Bergen & the Southwestern Fjords
Signposted off the road running to Baroniet Rosendal, this intriguing little open-air gallery has rock monoliths from the Folgefonna region that have been…
Norwegian Museum of Road History
Central Norway
The Norwegian Museum of Road History tells the story of Norway’s battle to forge roads through its challenging geography. Up the hill and part of the same…
The Northern Fjords
This international research station is dedicated to studying Runde's birdlife, a testament to the island's importance in the ornithological arena. There's…
North Iceland
Around 19km west of Blönduós, a 6km detour along Rte 721 leads you to a precious stone church, Þingeyrar, sitting quietly and photogenically beside Hóp…
Longyearbyen
Some 50m south of Svalbard Kirke stand five weathered wooden steps, all alone, and a sign, 'Sykhustrappa' (Hospital Stairs). This is all that remains of…
Bergen
Named after the Norwegian Resistance group who occupied it between 1940 and 1945, this excellent reconstruction of a clandestine Resistance headquarters,…
The Western Fjords
The tallest lighthouse in Sunnford, this 31m, red-and-white-striped tower sits on a remote island about 20km west of Florø. Built in 1881, it's…
East Iceland
Going by various names (Fish Factory, Sköpunarmiðstöð, 'In Here'), this once-abandoned fish factory by the harbour is a hive of creativity; it's a…
East Iceland
Accessed through the lobby of Fosshotel Eastfjords, this quality museum (with very pricey admission) paints a detailed portrait of the French connection…
Heimaey
Sheltered by an extinct volcano, green and grassy Herjólfsdalur was the home of Vestmannaeyjar's first settler, Herjólfur Barðursson. Excavations have…
Tromsø
The cannons of a Nazi coastal artillery battery and a restored command bunker form the basis of the Tromsø Forsvarsmuseum. It also tells of the giant…
Bergen
Comprising two collections at separate sites, the Cultural History Collection takes in Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings,…
The Finnish Lakeland
Showcasing the National Costume Centre, which includes regional dress from around Finland, this handicrafts museum has a small permanent collection and…
The Coast
At the foot of Slottsfjellet (Castle Rock) at the northern end of town, a five-minute walk northwest of the train station, this museum's highlights…
Bergen & the Southwestern Fjords
A high summer pilgrimage to this farm, a short distance east of Øystese, rewards with strawberries ripe in June and a bounty of raspberries, cherries,…
Turku & Finland's South Coast
Porvoo’s town museum occupies two buildings on the beautiful cobbled square at the heart of the Old Town. The town-hall building (Vanha Raatihuoneentori)…
Oslo
The Ski Museum, part of the Holmenkollen Ski Jump complex, leads you through the 4000-year history of nordic and downhill skiing in Norway. There are…
Turku & Finland's South Coast
National poet JL Runeberg’s former home has become a museum, with a period interior including stuffed foxes and muskets that demonstrate the poet’s love…
Zealand
Asserbo Slotsruin is the pretty if fairly minimal ruins of a small, moat-encircled 12th-century manor house and monastery. It lies near the southern…
Southeast Iceland
This outwash plain spreads across the Meðalland district south of Eldhraun and east of the river Kúðafljót (ie south of Kirkjubæjarklaustur). The sandy…
Ålesund
The town museum illustrates the history of sealing, fishing, shipping and industry in the Sunnmøre region, the fire of 1904 and the town's Jugendstil…
Lofoten
This fishery museum lies in the village of Sund, 3km off the E10 south of Ramberg and well-signposted off the main road. In one dim shack, there's an…
Southern Norway
This charming Romanesque church was built in the 12th century in honour of St Olav; it looks as if someone built a stave church and then changed their…
Tampere
Tampere’s industrial era began with Scot James Finlayson, who established a cotton mill by the Tammerkoski in the 1820s. Later it grew massively and was…
Longyearbyen
The wooden Svalbard Kirke was first built in the 1920s but later rebuilt after being destroyed in the German invasion of WWII. It's a largely modern…
Uppsala
Follow signs from the grave mounds at Gamla Uppsala to reach Disagården, a 19th-century farming village turned open-air museum consisting of 26 timber…
Arctic Highway
The moving Blodveimuseet, in a former German barracks inside the Saltdal Folk Museum, is visited by a 30-minute guided tour. It reveals conditions for…
The Northern Fjords
This open-air museum, on the small island of Hjertøya, is a 10-minute boat ride from Molde's Torget terminal. Its cod-liver oil factory, cottages and…
North Iceland
A folk, maritime and natural-history museum rolled into one, the Culture House is one of the North's most interesting regional museums. ‘Man and Nature’…
Southeast Iceland
West of the village and south of the Ring Road is this vast, dimpled, vivid-green pseudocrater field. Pseudocraters formed when hot lava poured over…
North Iceland
Opened in 2014, this museum salutes the history of human exploration, covering Viking voyages and polar expeditions, but its most nootable exhibition…
The Westfjords
Gvenderlaug is a landmark, 42°C miracle-producing pool (no bathing) that was blessed by the bishop Gvendur the Good in the 13th century and is now a…
Rural Buildings (Vefsn Museum)
Arctic Highway
Northeast of the centre and part of the Vefsn Museum, the rural building collection features 12 farmhouses, shops and the like from the 18th and 19th…
Bergen
This stave church, in the leafy southern suburb of Paradis, was built in Sognefjord around 1150 and moved here in 1883. It is, in fact, a reconstruction,…
Southern Norway
Believed to be the highest waterfall in the world in the 18th century (Angel Falls in Venezuela now has that claim), the 104m-high Rjukanfossen is still a…
The South
Impressive turf houses and old farmhouses built into an enormous freestanding rock, in front of the Eyjafjöll Mountains. Local farmers would keep their…
Odense
Though most of the triple-transept brick structure you see today dates from 1880, there has been a church on this spot since before 1295, and for much of…
Lappland
Vita Huset is a folk museum in a former policemen’s residence, with evocative photos depicting Finn civilians fleeing the retreating German forces in 1944…
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