Museum

Viking Experience

2019-04-27 02:53Meet the Vikings. Smell the tar, taste the food, feel the history.
The Vikings have been awaiting you for more than 1000 years.
Experience the Viking age, going direct from the pier.

The Vikings` warm lunch

2017-01-13 14:40Simple, tasty and hearty! Enjoy soup cooked in the big iron pan over the fireplace in the chieftain’s hall.

Lofotr Vikingmuseum

2017-02-27 16:06An impressive reconstruction of the largest house that has been found dating back to the Viking Age.

The Blacksmith of sund / Sund Fisherymuseum - Entrance

2019-03-09 15:17There is something reminiscent of a fairy tale about the story of one of Lofoten's oldest tourist attractions. Operations at the museum and the smithy have been kept as is since the two were established by Hans Gjertsen in 1947. The official opening of the museum took place in 1964, but the groundwo

The Vikings are coming!

2019-02-22 12:45The Vikings were fierce warriors. Fighting, plundering, ruling over land areas and people, they were marking their way across Europe more than 1000 years ago. The Vikings were skilled sailors and on their longships they would be carrying very valuable trading articles from the north – highly desirab

The Lofoten Museum

2017-03-11 08:07Experience the history of the Lofoten Fishery at one of the best preserved squires in Lofoten.

Norwegian Fishing Village Museum Å

2017-01-13 14:40A comprehensive fishing village museum displaying 150 year old coastal building environments.

Lofoten War Memorial Museum

2017-03-10 11:07The Lofoten War Memorial Museum probably offers Norway´s most extensive collection of uniforms and smaller objects from the second World War. Most likely, this is in fact one of the world´s largest collections of this kind!

Norwegian Telecom Museum in Sørvågen

2019-06-22 08:10LOCAL AND NATIONAL TELECOM HISTORY

Why did the first morse code signal in Northern Europe emanate from the telegraph station in Sorvagen, far west of Lofoten, in 1906? The telegraph was developed as early as 1861, with Sorvagen as the terminus. Why? And where were these signals sent? To which shi