Norwegian Maritime Museum
Seafaring museum of traditional boats, ship models, wrecks and marine paintings beside the fjord.
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This guide to the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo follows one boat that was never meant to work: the yacht Venus, ordered in eighteen eighty-nine by a Bergen shipbuilder named Wilhelm Frimann Meyer. It sets the designer Colin Archer, better known for rescue boats, against the racing crowd at Marstrand and Hankø. Best heard down on the museum quay, looking out at the fjord.
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