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Stavanger City Museum

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Museum built in 1893 offering exhibits on local cultural & natural history, plus displays for kids. People often mention museum, kids, history, city, animals, visit, interesting,


Address

Muségata 16, 4010 Stavanger, Norway

Website

www.stavangermuseum.no

Contact

+47 51 84 27 00

Rating on Google Maps

4.30 (568 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Tuesday: 11 AM to 3 PM
  • Wednesday: 11 AM to 3 PM
  • Thursday: 11 AM to 7 PM
  • Friday: 11 AM to 3 PM
  • Saturday: 11 AM to 4 PM
  • Sunday: 11 AM to 4 PM
  • Monday: Closed

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  • 5/5 Oliver B. 3 years ago on Google
    Interesting and detailed exhibition about the history of childhood in Norway. The modern animal skull room was a little bit scary for the kids.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Gabija J. 9 months ago on Google
    This museum is a bit underrated. Really worth the price if you are with kids. Two floors of fun activities for them. Also some history and natural museum in one. We had a really lovely time here and my girls loved the place.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Vladimer S. 10 months ago on Google
    In the center of the city, this museum has a good selection of permanent and temporary exhibitions. It has a very well done exhibit of local fauna, with some stuffed animals you can touch to experience how their fur feels. The exhibit of bunad (national outfit) and its history is excellent, but I believe it is temporary. And top of all of that the staff are very friendly.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Evgeniy K. 1 year ago on Google
    Costumes exhibition on the last floor recommended. Especially cool the digital "trying room" where you can see yourself in "folk" dress
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Chris J. 4 months ago on Google
    En fantastisk opplevelse, et flott museum I really enjoyed my experience and my 2 hours in this museum. It includes various sections nicely organised, very well documented and beautifully decorated. Everything is made for the kids and for the adults. The toy manufacturer section takes you back to your room with the magic of toys, when you were little. The animals sections are very impressive with skeletons and a lot of impressive mammals, birds..... A section for the kids with a nice fort where they can play and run, incredible And a lot of explanations on aventurers, toys manufacturer, and even how to make a baby, lol. Free with the "must" museum pass, I will say that this museum is a MUST. I warmly recommend it, to play and or to learn..... Visite on saturday 9 december 2023. Takk for dette flotte museet og en fantastisk opplevelse. I'm on the other pictures, then i don't publish

  • 5/5 Mohammad H. 2 years ago on Google
    It is a very good museum for school children. There they see the native animals of Norway, in addition to fantasy animals, which primitives'imagination had created. There is also a room for dining where children can sit and enjoy their food and adults can enjoy a cup of coffee and the like.

  • 4/5 Ephraim 5 months ago on Google
    Interesting exhibits and its located within the same compound with the childrens museum so you could do both at the same time. Had free entry as it was a special Sunday so that was a treat. Some interesting exhibits showing Norway's cultural and fauna history.

  • 5/5 Alicja 6 months ago on Google
    Loved it, it has a lot of interesting information on animals, traditional clothing with cool possibility to listen to personal stories

  • 4/5 norvegia t. 7 months ago on Google
    Animals floor is not so big, but was still interesting.

  • 4/5 Johannes S. 8 months ago on Google
    Cute city museum, great for kids. Many stuffed animals and birds and great text in Norwegian and English. The tickets will give you discounts at the other city museums

  • 5/5 Winnie M. 1 year ago on Google
    Great place to learn about Norwegian culture. It's free to students.

  • 5/5 Oleksandr B. 1 year ago on Google
    Lots of things to see and do. Pleasant staff. Fun for kids

  • 5/5 Smriti G. 1 year ago on Google
    Loved to visit here. Good place to visit with kids as they have barne museum also. Loved how they have collection of bones and skeletal remains of different species. They also have exhibits about the birds and their migration traits.

  • 4/5 Stuart T. 1 year ago on Google
    The museum was great to visit and learn all about the local area and its heritage. The staff spoke perfect English and were very helpful and advised us that the fee for entry covers other museums in the area. There was a lot on display here across multiple floors with lots of information displayed. It took around an hour to get through the museum.

  • 4/5 Samuel C. 1 year ago on Google
    Great. Beautiful old building, with lot of stuff to see. Maybe more interesting for kids than for adult but still very good.

  • 4/5 Jassilu98 1 year ago on Google
    Really fun for families with kids 🤗 they had closed the parts we wanted to see

  • 5/5 Darbi H. 5 years ago on Google
    This museum has a lot of cool exhibits from animals to the story of Stavanger played out upstairs. There's 4 floors to visit. I would recommend!

  • 4/5 覃羿彬 4 years ago on Google
    A cocktail museum I would call it. It has a toy museum, a natural history museum and a Stavanger city museum all housed in the same building. The building is not large, so don’t expect an extensive collection, but many of the items and restored scenes of history or human body is very carefully curated, it is quite a pleasure to give an hour’s visit.

  • 1/5 Marcello F. 1 year ago on Google
    The city museum was actually nothing about the city. There was nothing about the history of the city, its characteristics, its culture. There was just stuff for kids and stuff about natural sciences

  • 5/5 Prizma G. 5 years ago on Google
    The Stavanger city museum is very interesting to visit. It falls under MUST scheme (and by paying 50NOK-student price) and you can visit three musuem inside Stavanger. The basement has all the preserved fauna, first floor is a children’s museum and the top floor has photographs and mannequin depicting the history of old Stavanger. It was an interesting visit!

  • 4/5 Lauritonas 4 years ago on Google
    Really nice museum with different types of animals, birds and insects. Maybe more fun with children as you can quickly go trough them all if you are just there to look. For children there are different activites too so its a family friendly place. There is a cafeteria incase you get hungry to the left of the entrence.


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Amenities


  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible restroom
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible parking lot

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