Museums, Travel



Both Vesterheim and Nordic museums below have gift shop/book stores and websites. Scandinavian literature and history, dictionaries, cookbooks, tapes, CD's, Jewelry, etc. Send for a catalog.

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
523 W. Water Street, PO Box 379, Decorah, IA 52101
Phone: (563) 382-9681
Fax: (563) 382-8828
E-mail: vesterheim@vesterheim.org.
http://vesterheim.org/index.php
Nordic Heritage Museum
3014 NW 67th Street, Seattle, WA
98117 206 / 789-5707 - Tues-Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4
http://www.nordicmuseum.org/
http://www.bm.uib.no/ - Bergen Museum, kulturhistorie, naturhistorie, etc. sound files. Click on utstillinger, Gamle Naboer, click a period in history, read and hear about early peoples.

http://www.bergenartmuseum.no - The Bergen Art Museum in Bergen, Norway - Some examples from its collections of art from the 15th century to contemporary.

http://www.norskfolke.museum.no/
Open-air Folkemuseum, on the island of Bygdøy; see folk art, antique rosemaling, decorated stave church,

http://www.norskfolkemuseum.no/prosjekt/mogb/fq/engelsk/engelsk.htm Maps of Norway -
http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Norway/Maps_and_Views/ - Map links, photo galleries, ski maps, webcams.
http://www.kartbutikken.no/produktlisting.php?kategori=19 - pick a city, buy a map
http://www.hvor.no/kart/ - click on map and zoom in anywhere in Norway.
http://www.norge.no/kart/ - click on map, find info on communities.
http://www.borgos.nndata.no/Norge.htm#OP - map and descriptions of Norway's counties.
http://ngis2.statkart.no/norgesglasset/default.html - type in kommune, zoom in.

http://www.multimap.com/index/NO1.htm - Local maps of towns all over Norway

http://oslo.clickwalk.no/indexe.html
 Click along a walking tour of Oslo sights:

http://www.oslosurf.com/ - Oslo information site.
http://www.oslosurf.com/oslobilder/index.php - Oslo photos

Beautiful Colorful photos of Svalbard, Nordland, Troms, Finnmark:
http://www.norwegia.filo.pl/zdjecia.php?go=polnoc

http://www.vulkaner.no/t/rv17/torghatten.html -Torghatten Mountain
pictures of the mountain with a hole through it, that you can walk through.
Read how the hole got there:
engelsk: http://bronn.no/Eng/HATT24-1.htm
norsk: http://bronn.no/No/torghatten.htm

http://www.discovernorway.no/ -See videos of parts of Norway

http://www.visveg.no/ - Find the route.
http://www.no.map24.com/ - Search the world for a route.
http://www.gulesider.no/ - Yellow pages, Telefonkatalog; find someone's number;
keep clicking anywhere in Norway and magnify the map right down to a location;
or enter in start and end to find a route.

http://www.nsb.no/internet/en/index.jhtml - (Eng) Norwegian State Railways;
Timetables, plan your travel, buy your ticket.
http://www.flaamsbana.no/ - Spectacular train ride (Oslo-Bergen line)

http://www.visitbergen.com/default.asp?sp=GB&bhcp=1 - Bergen website.

http://www.scanheritage.org/NewWebPage/titlepage.html - Scandinavian
Heritage Foundation

http://www.scanfest.org/index.html - Scandinavian Heritage Festival in
N.J.

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