Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway

Standing: Must see
Rank: Rank 16 of 3,842

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Museum of Cultural History

The Museum of Cultural History (Kulturhistorisk museum, KHM) is a group of museums belonging to the University of Oslo. It was created in 1999 by merging the University's Collection of National Antiquities, the Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy, the Coin Cabinet and the Ethnographic Museum, and took its present name in 2004. The museum describes itself as Norway's leading research museum in the field of cultural history, and it also carries out archaeological excavations in southern and eastern Norway.

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What's inside

The museum's collections hold more than three million objects: archaeological finds from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, and coin and ethnographic collections that show the world's cultural diversity. Visitors meet them in its museums: the Historical Museum in central Oslo, which shows selected objects from Norway's largest cultural history collections; the Museum of the Viking Age at Bygdøy, home of the world's best-preserved Viking ships, which opens in 2027; and the Museum of University History.

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Place details and sources

Admission fee: Payable OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Building: Museum building OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Type of place: Museum OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Established: 1999 Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Operator: UiO OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Wikipedia article: Museum of Cultural History, Oslo Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09