Norwegian Explorers

OVERVIEW

This excursion is dedicated to the passionate of the museums. Drive from the pier to the Peninsula of Bygdøy, also known as “museum island”. Here you will visit the Maritime Museum, housing the smaller Viking boat and a wide range of Norwegian maritime cultural heritage including the country's oldest vessel (2200 years old). Later we will visit the Kon-Tiki Museum housing the original balsa-raft used by Thor Heyerdahl and his five companions in 1947 during their voyage from Peru to Polynesia, across 3000 kilometres of ocean. A good selection of documentary material is also on display. Further, the museum houses the papyrus-boat RA II with which Thor Heyerdahl and his companions crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1970. From the Kon-Tiki Museum we continue to the Fram Polarmuseum - housing the famous polar vessel "Fram" which is still the surface vessel that has sailed both furthest North – reaching 85° 57'n latitude with Nansens expedition from 1893-1896 – and furthest South reaching 78° 41's latitude with Amundsens expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1912.