Bjugde Peninsula is one of the most visited neighbourhoods in Oslo, as it is home to numerous museums: the Norwegian Folk Open Museum. It is home to numerous museums: the Norwegian Open Air Folk Museum, the Viking Ship Museum, the Fram Museum and the Kon-Tiki Museum. Norwegian Folk Open Air Museum, the Viking Ship Museum, the Fram Museum and the Kon-Tiki Museum.
The oldest of these is the Viking Ship Museum, which contains amazing archaeological artefacts - ancient, elegant vessels on which the ancestors of the Norwegians sailed the seas around Europe and crossed the Atlantic to the shores of America, as well as numerous items from Viking burials. numerous objects from Viking burials.
Another museum, called the Fram, holds as its main exhibit the Fridtjof Nansen's ship, built to the famous polar explorer's blueprints. Polar explorer specifically for sailing in the harsh conditions of the Arctic. A quarter century later, another Norwegian traveller, Roald Amundsen, sailed the Fram to the shores of Antarctica and then skied the first man to reach the South Pole.
But perhaps the most visited museum today is the Kon-Tiki Museum. It's a private museum owned by Thor Heyerdahl. It has two main exhibits - the raft "the Kon-Tiki raft and the papyrus boat Ra, on which the brave Norwegian made his famous voyages across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
