6980 kilometers, 101 days of travel, a raft of balsa logs and the Humboldt current - these are the dry facts of how Turu Heyerdahl and the five team members managed to cross the Pacific Ocean on the legendary Con- Tiki. " Today, the honorary wooden "traveler" is exhibited in the museum of the same name in the Norwegian capital, which you visit first and foremost with the question of the boundaries of the possible.

Museum exposition

The central hall of the Kon-Tiki Museum, of course, is dedicated to an incredible swim. In the center of the hall there is an artfully highlighted raft in partially original, partly restored form, and along the perimeter there are numerous materials about the expedition - maps, household items on the ship, photos, memories of participants.

But besides Kon-Tiki there is something to look . As is known, this was not the only haul of Heyerdahl: he also made expeditions on cane boats "Ra" and "Tigris", lived almost in the Robinson on the Fatu-Khiva archipelago and fundamentally explored the island of Easter - and every life the great museum traveler is dedicated to a separate museum hall . Among the masterpieces is a full-size copy of the Ra boat, as well as the reconstructed Easter Island cave . It is definitely worth looking into the Whale Shark Hall - here you can see a stuffed animal of this huge animal, in memory July 12, 1947, when the crew of Kon-Tiki met with predators in the middle of the Pacific .

Address and opening hours

Address: Bygdoynesveien, 36.

Opening Hours: January-February with 10:00 to 16:00; March-May from 10:00 to 17:00; June-August from 9:30 to 18:00; September-October from 10:00 to 17:00; November-December from 10:00 to 16:00. The museum is open daily

Entrance - 80 NOK or free with Oslo Pass map

Kon-Tiki Museum

Entrance to the Kon-Tiki Museum

Cabin, Kon-Tiki Museum

Ship in miniature, Kon-Tiki Museum

Raft, Kon-Tiki Museum

Personal Items, Kon-Tiki Museum

Fishing Hooks, Kon-Tiki Museum "

Shark Photos, Kon-Tiki Museum