Historical Museum
Art Nouveau museum of Viking gold, runes, medieval church art and world ethnography.
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This guide to the Historical Museum in Oslo stays with a single gold brooch in the Viking treasury, made for a warrior at Charlemagne's Frankish court and later found on a Norwegian farm. It follows the object's journey across ninth-century Europe and the question of how it changed hands along the way. Best heard standing at the glass case, close enough to trace the leaves on its three arms.
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