Hi Everyone!
Today was a super fun sightseeing day, which totally made up for yesterday being a bit of a dud. Today I took the ferry to a section of Oslo where a lot of museums are located, a bit like it was in Stockholm.
The first museum I visited is the Viking Ship Museum. Similar to the one in Denmark, this one also has preserved viking ships, although these weren't sunk as part of a blockade, but were burial ships. The oldest one also happens to be the most elaborate ship ever found, and is over 90 percent original. I'm amazed by the intricate detail of all the carvings.
Along with the ships, other treasures were discovered including this amazingly detailed horse drawn cart.
I had some free time so I decided to go to the Fram Museum, and I'm so glad I did! The Fram was the ship used on the Polar expeditions, to both the north and south poles. You can climb aboard the ship and explore the living quarters, eating quarters, and storage areas.
What impressed me the most about Fridtjof Nansen, the leader of the expeditions, was how well he planned and thought ahead about what the crew would need, the skills the crew would need to have, and how they would stay entertained on board the ship for 3 years. He really thought of everything, and I suspect that was why his expeditions were the first successful polar expeditions. He even lived with the Inuit people, learned their language, and learned the skills they knew in order to survive the harsh climate.
Harold had fun exploring the igloo replica.
Eventually polar expeditions were conducted using airplanes instead of sailing ships. Harold loved this plushie he found that was brought on the airplane expeditions, and was supposed to be left behind, but was smuggled aboard under a jacket. I'm including the text card.
After the Fram Museum, I went to the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, its another open air museum with historical buildings brought from all over Norway. I really enjoyed the Stave Church, when the Vikings converted to Christianity in the 1100's, they used their boat building skills to make stave churches. You can see some of the viking influence in the carvings around the building and door frames.
They have several farmstead buildings, with living roofs!
Harold liked seeing the baby cows in the petting barn.
I took the ferry back to the city center, where the were finishing up the Oslo marathon. I walked along the waterfront to another small sculpture garden. Oslo has amazing sculptures all over the city, not just in the sculpture parks.
I picked up some dinner, and have been doing laundry at my Airbnb for what feels like forever. 2 hours in the dryer and my stuff still isn't dry! Maybe I'll actually be able to go to bed in the next hour, I have an early morning train to catch, and the Oslo central station is huge, so I need to give myself plenty of time to find my train, and pick up breakfast.
Today was a super fun sightseeing day, which totally made up for yesterday being a bit of a dud. Today I took the ferry to a section of Oslo where a lot of museums are located, a bit like it was in Stockholm.
The first museum I visited is the Viking Ship Museum. Similar to the one in Denmark, this one also has preserved viking ships, although these weren't sunk as part of a blockade, but were burial ships. The oldest one also happens to be the most elaborate ship ever found, and is over 90 percent original. I'm amazed by the intricate detail of all the carvings.
Along with the ships, other treasures were discovered including this amazingly detailed horse drawn cart.
I had some free time so I decided to go to the Fram Museum, and I'm so glad I did! The Fram was the ship used on the Polar expeditions, to both the north and south poles. You can climb aboard the ship and explore the living quarters, eating quarters, and storage areas.
What impressed me the most about Fridtjof Nansen, the leader of the expeditions, was how well he planned and thought ahead about what the crew would need, the skills the crew would need to have, and how they would stay entertained on board the ship for 3 years. He really thought of everything, and I suspect that was why his expeditions were the first successful polar expeditions. He even lived with the Inuit people, learned their language, and learned the skills they knew in order to survive the harsh climate.
Harold had fun exploring the igloo replica.
Eventually polar expeditions were conducted using airplanes instead of sailing ships. Harold loved this plushie he found that was brought on the airplane expeditions, and was supposed to be left behind, but was smuggled aboard under a jacket. I'm including the text card.
After the Fram Museum, I went to the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, its another open air museum with historical buildings brought from all over Norway. I really enjoyed the Stave Church, when the Vikings converted to Christianity in the 1100's, they used their boat building skills to make stave churches. You can see some of the viking influence in the carvings around the building and door frames.
They have several farmstead buildings, with living roofs!
Harold liked seeing the baby cows in the petting barn.
I took the ferry back to the city center, where the were finishing up the Oslo marathon. I walked along the waterfront to another small sculpture garden. Oslo has amazing sculptures all over the city, not just in the sculpture parks.
I picked up some dinner, and have been doing laundry at my Airbnb for what feels like forever. 2 hours in the dryer and my stuff still isn't dry! Maybe I'll actually be able to go to bed in the next hour, I have an early morning train to catch, and the Oslo central station is huge, so I need to give myself plenty of time to find my train, and pick up breakfast.
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