Norway Fisheries Museum
Fisheries museum in protected 1700s waterfront warehouses with log walls and a stockfish store.
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This guide to the Norway Fisheries Museum in Bergen follows Frederik Meltzer, the merchant who bought this eighteenth-century stockfish warehouse in 1828 and kept a diary for most of his life. It moves through the British blockade of the Napoleonic years, the grain boats bound for Denmark, and the assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. Listen inside the old warehouse, among the log walls and tilting floors.
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