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The Historical Museum in Oslo is actually three museums under one roof. Among the masterpieces of his richest collection are coins, jewelry and decorative art items from the Viking Age, including the famous Khon treasure - as many as 2, 5 kg of precious metal items! The ethnographic section of the museum represents exhibits from all over the world - from Asia, Africa and the Americas. As in most Oslo museums, the entrance is free.

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The Historical Museum
The Cafe in the Historical Museum, Oslo The Historical Museum in Oslo
The Café in the Historical Museum
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In the halls of the first floor of the museum is a collection of ancient artefacts found in Norway, from the early Stone Age to the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as the Viking era - more than 10 thousand years . The most interesting exhibits - perfectly preserved helmets ancestors of the inhabitants of Oslo . can see how varied the shape and material of Norwegian coins in the coin room for the last thousand years . It also put money and other crops, the fates decreed caught in a braschenii in the country, - pay particular attention to excellent examples of coins Carthage . In Medieval gallery exhibits objects of religious art of 12-13 centuries from the south-eastern Norway crosses, carved pieces of interior decoration of churches, benches and so forth .. Here it is worth to see a collection of rings of the Middle Ages . Ethnographic collection presents samples of applied art from the remotest corners of the world .

The most interesting exhibits of the museum are perfectly preserved helmets of the ancestors of modern Oslo teley.

The halls with a stunning collection of Egyptian mummies are also worth a visit, most of which was donated to Norway by the Swedish King Oscar II during the common history of these two countries. The two most ancient are dated 11-10 centuries BC. e. Another masterpiece of the exposition is the mummy of the priestess of the goddess Ming (2 in BC), nicknamed Nofret ("so beautiful" in translation). Based on the standards of beauty mummies - no doubt that almost all the teeth in place, but the brain is traditionally not observed: removed and replaced with resin, which is a standard method of mummification

The museum's lovely cafes and there is a good store

Address.. and business hours

Address: Frederiksgate, 2, on the territory of the University of Oslo

Working hours: from May 15 to September 14 - from 10:00 to 17:00; from September 15 to May 14 - from 11:00 to 16:00, every day except Monday.

Admission is free.