Bergen Maritime Museum
Stone-walled maritime museum shaped like a boathouse, with ship models and a floating oak staircase.
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This guide to the Bergen Maritime Museum stands you in front of a building that is not what it looks like, and follows its architect, Per Grieg, as he fits a modern museum onto an awkward plot between two older neighbours. It touches the shipmasters and shipowners who founded the collection in 1921, the decades it spent as a lodger, and the shipping money that finally paid for the digging. Best heard outside the entrance, then again with a hand on the oak staircase inside.
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