Every museums video worth watching in Oslo — in one place

Oslo’s museum map is dominated by one peninsula. Bygdøy, a short ride west of the centre, concentrates the maritime collection, and several creators converge on doing it as a single morning. The Fram Museum is built around the original polar ship Fram, which holds the record for sailing both the furthest north and furthest south of any wooden ship and took part in three multi-year expeditions between 1893 and 1912 [via Top 20 Things]. Walk-through decks and a polar simulator that mimics the freezing temperatures sit alongside the actual tools used by Nansen and Amundsen [via Oslo Norway Travel]. Next door, the Kon-Tiki Museum holds the original 1947 balsa-wood raft that crossed roughly 8,000 kilometres from Peru to Polynesia over 101 days at sea [via 25 Best Things]. The nearby Norsk Folkemuseum is an open-air site of more than 160 relocated buildings spanning 500 years, including a 13th-century stave church with costumed interpreters baking bread in summer [via How to Spend 2]. Fram entry runs around $16 and the Folkemuseum around $18 [via How to Spend 2].

For viewing order, the “Top 20 Things to do in Oslo” video doubles as a routing plan because it stitches Fram, Kon-Tiki, the Viking hall and the new Munch Museum into a sequence you can copy. Pair it with “11 COOL THINGS TO DO IN OSLO” — that creator notes the Viking ticket at 80 NOK is also valid for the Historical Museum, which is a saving the overview videos skip [via 11 COOL THINGS]. Watch the overview to pick three; watch the vlog to plan the ticket.