About the Norwegian Maritime Museum

The Norwegian Maritime Museum was founded in 1914. Its initial collections were donated from the large centennial exhibition in Kristiania (Oslo) the same year. Since 2015 it hasbeen part of the Norsk Folkemuseum foundation, which includes the Bogstad Manor, the Bygdøy Royal Manor, Eidsvoll 1814, the Ibsen Museum, and the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.

Today, the NMM is a cultural history museum as well as an archaeological administrative museum with responsibility for maritime cultural heritage in eight out of Norway’s 15 counties. The museum is involved in historic vessel preservation. You can  book a trips  on some of our museum vessels, including the schooner Svanen, built in 1916, and the renaissance boat Vaaghals, a reconstruction of an archaeological find from Bjørvika in Oslo.

The museum is located alongside the Fram Museum and the Kon-Tiki Museum at Bygdøynes on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo.