Our museums

In a beautiful, scenic setting surrounding the ruins of one of Norway’s oldest mediaeval castles, we find one of the biggest open-air museums in the country, with buildings from all over the county of Trøndelag. Here you can listen to fascinating stories, learn about traditions and handicrafts, meet the animals on the farm, or go for a walk along the fairy tale trail.

Visit the Old Mine or take a train ride in one of the over 100 year old carriages on the Thamshavn Railway between Løkken Verk and Bårdshaug in Orkanger. The exhibitions include the Royal Carriage and the oldest locomotives used on the Thamshavn Railway.

The mining history of the Røros region has been inscribed on UNESCO’S World Heritage List and is recounted at the museum via exhibitions in the Smeltery building in Røros, the Olavsgruva mines and on guided tours of the mining town.

The local and national history of wooden skis is presented here on the basis of the four wooden ski factories in Rindal. Rindal Ski Museum includes a cluster of fifteen historical buildings.

At the museum, located in the former school for the deaf at Kalvskinnet in Trondheim, you can learn about the culture, history and language of the deaf. Visit ‘Room X’, where everyone can learn to listen with their eyes and talk with their bodies. The museum has been adapted to suit everyone.

Join us on a tour of the history of music and study historical musical instruments as they are being played. Here, you can browse through the musical instrument collection and become familiar with musical traditions from all over the world.

Learn about Norwegian popular music, delight in tunes you know and love, and discover who has been included in the Rockheim Hall of Fame. Immerse yourself in the interactive Time Tunnel, a journey through recent Norwegian musical and cultural history.

We offer coastal culture, fascinating local history and modern aquaculture. Join us on a trip out to sea and learn more about Norwegian aquaculture. On our demonstration trips we take you out on a boat to a fully operational fish farm.

This is a coastal culture museum highlighting the skills necessary to build and sail clinker-built boats. Visit “Båtskott”, the unique wooden-boat builder’s yard. See one of the country’s biggest collections of clinker-built square-sail boats.

The exhibition entitled deals with the transition from sailing vessels to steamships and focuses on industrialization at sea, the many shipyards in Trondheim that built both ships and steam engines and provided employment to a great many workers, the beginnings of the coastal steamer liners and cruise traffic, and not least the seamen themselves.

Immerse yourself in exhibitions based on the museum’s comprehensive collections of Norwegian and international art, together with shifting exhibitions of contemporary art.

Offers guided tours at the Hannah Ryggen Center and the Austråttborgen Manor at Brekstad, Ørland. During the summer season, they also offer guided tours in the Royal Recidence Stiftsgården in Trondheim.