Holmenkollen Ski Museum
World's oldest ski museum, tracing four thousand years of skiing up to polar expedition gear.
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This guide to the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in Oslo follows Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen out onto the Arctic ice in the spring of eighteen ninety-five. It reaches back to a sunken American ship, a Norwegian meteorologist's idea about moving ice, and a vessel built to be squeezed rather than crushed. Best heard standing near the polar expedition clothing in the gallery.
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