Where Norway Preserves Its Strangest Stories
Norway’s strange-museum landscape is less about dusty cabinets of fabricated monsters than about places where folklore, punishment, illness, religious suppression and unexplained phenomena have been given unusually powerful settings.
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Introduction
The most important distinction is between institutions preserving difficult historical evidence and attractions using legend as entertainment. Steilneset Memorial, the Leprosy Museum and the Museum of Justice are research-led public institutions dealing with documented lives and events. The Troll Museums in Tromsø and Bergen are modern, visitor-oriented interpretations of fairy tales. Hessdalen is stranger still: not a conventional museum at all, but a landscape where an unexplained light phenomenon has generated instruments, archives, citizen science and UFO tourism. Together, these places reveal a Norwegian curiosity culture that moves constantly between evidence, folklore, spectacle and remembrance.
Where witchcraft history becomes personal
Norway’s most significant site connected with witchcraft is Steilneset Memorial in Vardø, on the far north-eastern coast. It commemorates the 91 people executed for witchcraft in Finnmark between 1600 and 1692, a period in which Vardø recorded an exceptionally high concentration of convictions and executions. The memorial is therefore not a fantasy attraction or celebration of modern witchcraft. It is a public monument to judicial persecution, built around named victims and surviving court evidence.[royalcourt.no]royalcourt.nomonument to witchcraft trial victimsRoyal CourtMonument to witchcraft trial victims23 Jun 2011 — The witchcraft trials. During the witch hunt of the seventeenth century, Var…
The site was created by architect Peter Zumthor and artist Louise Bourgeois and opened in 2011. Visitors first enter a long, narrow memorial hall containing 91 illuminated windows, one for each victim, alongside short accounts derived from the trial records. A separate dark glass structure contains Bourgeois’s installation: a metal chair burning inside a ring of mirrors. The architecture turns documented history into a physical experience of confinement, scrutiny and accusation without pretending to reconstruct a seventeenth-century courtroom.[nasjonalmuseet.no]nasjonalmuseet.noThe Damned, the Possessed and the Beloved: About Art…You can see the monument at Steilneset in Vardø. The monument comme…
What makes Steilneset unusual is its refusal to turn witch trials into gothic entertainment. The accusations included stories of storms, demons, gatherings and harmful magic, but the memorial frames them as products of authority, fear and intolerance. Queen Sonja described the site at its opening as both a symbol of historical injustice and a warning against continuing prejudice and persecution. It is free to enter and forms part of the Norwegian Scenic Routes network, making a difficult history accessible within a major tourism landscape rather than isolating it inside an academic museum.[royalcourt.no]royalcourt.nomonument to witchcraft trial victimsRoyal CourtMonument to witchcraft trial victims23 Jun 2011 — The witchcraft trials. During the witch hunt of the seventeenth century, Var…
Steilneset also matters because the Finnmark trials are unusually well documented. Researcher Liv Helene Willumsen has published court records and transcriptions associated with the prosecutions, allowing the memorial texts to be tied to identifiable individuals rather than a generic image of “the witch”. That documentary basis gives the site much greater historical credibility than attractions built around invented spells, props or vague local legends.[Liv Helene Willumsen]livhelenewillumsen.no· Witches of the North. · The Witchcraft Trials in Finnmark, Northern Norway · Steilneset. · Seventeenth-Century…Read more…
Trolls: folklore, art and tourist spectacle
Norway’s troll tradition is displayed most explicitly at the Troll Museums in Tromsø and Bergen. The Tromsø attraction describes itself as Norway’s first museum devoted entirely to trolls and fairy tales, while the Bergen branch presents itself as the country’s largest museum with that focus. Both use digital installations and augmented reality to animate creatures and stories drawn from Norwegian folklore.[visitnorway.com]visitnorway.comOpen source on visitnorway.com.
Visitors should expect an immersive commercial attraction rather than a large scholarly collection of historic artefacts. The exhibits explain varieties of trolls, retell fairy tales and invite visitors to interact with digital creatures, compare their size with a troll or search for folklore figures within staged environments. This makes the museums accessible to families and travellers who know little about Norwegian tradition, but their main purpose is interpretation and entertainment rather than original folklore research.[Troll Museum Tromsø]trollmuseum.noOpen source on trollmuseum.no.
That does not make the subject culturally trivial. Trolls occupy an important place in Norwegian storytelling and visual culture, particularly through fairy-tale collections and the illustrations of artists such as Theodor Kittelsen. The National Museum holds numerous fairy-tale illustrations, including images in which trolls are not cheerful souvenir mascots but immense, ancient and sometimes disturbing presences embedded in forests and mountains. These works help explain why the modern tourist troll can feel both comic and faintly threatening.[Nasjonalmuseet]nasjonalmuseet.noFairy talesFairy tales
The difference between the National Museum’s collections and the dedicated Troll Museums is useful. One preserves and interprets artworks within a national art-historical collection; the others package folklore as an interactive visitor experience. Neither proves that trolls were believed in uniformly across Norway, and contemporary Norwegians generally encounter them as traditional characters rather than cryptids awaiting scientific discovery. The interest lies in how flexible the figure has become: rural danger, fairy-tale villain, national symbol, comic sculpture and marketable tourism brand.
Sacred objects and the problem of the curiosity cabinet
Some of Norway’s most powerful “strange” objects belong to Sámi religious and cultural history. They should not be treated as exotic occult curiosities. Drums, sacred stones and ritual objects entered museums through processes that included missionary activity, legal persecution, confiscation and the wider colonial collection of Indigenous heritage. Modern Sámi museums increasingly interpret them as living cultural property rather than specimens of a vanished belief system.[RiddoDuottarMuseat]rdm.noOpen source on rdm.no.
The Sámi Collections managed by RiddoDuottarMuseat include objects associated with Indigenous religion, among them the drum belonging to Anders Poulsen, confiscated in 1691 during a witchcraft case. Ownership of the drum was formally transferred from Denmark to the Sámi museum in 2022 after decades on loan. Its return changed the meaning of the object: it was no longer simply a royal or ethnographic possession displayed far from the community whose history it represented.[rdm.no]rdm.noOpen source on rdm.no.
This is one of the most important tensions in Norway’s curiosity culture. Older museums often created cabinets of difference by removing ritual objects from their social settings. Repatriation projects now ask who has the right to own, interpret and display such material. The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History transferred ownership of 1,639 Sámi objects to Sámi museums through the Bååstede repatriation project, while retaining a broader Sámi collection and an exhibition addressing religion, politics and modern cultural life.[Norsk Folkemuseum]norskfolkemuseum.noOpen source on norskfolkemuseum.no.
For visitors interested in magic, divination or shamanic traditions, these collections provide genuine historical material, but they demand a different attitude from a troll attraction. The drums are not paranormal props. They are connected to specific people, suppressed religions and continuing debates over cultural authority. Their story is as much about museums themselves—how they acquired objects and how they are now returning them—as it is about the beliefs represented on their surfaces.
Medicine, disease and preserved suffering
The Leprosy Museum at St George’s Hospital in Bergen is one of Norway’s most affecting medical-history sites. Rather than assembling anatomical oddities, it preserves an authentic institutional environment in which people with leprosy lived. Bergen had three leprosy hospitals during the nineteenth century and, between 1850 and 1900, one of Europe’s largest concentrations of patients with the disease.[visitbergen.com]en.visitbergen.comvisit Bergen.com Leprosy Museumvisit Bergen.com Leprosy Museum
The museum’s strangeness comes from the survival of the place itself: wards, domestic spaces, a herb garden and a hospital church remain part of a complex shaped by isolation, care, stigma and religious life. The interpretation focuses on both medical investigation and the dignity of the people confined there, rather than presenting disease as spectacle. The museum is publicly accessible but seasonally operated, so opening arrangements require checking before travel.[visitBergen.com]en.visitbergen.comvisit Bergen.com Leprosy Museumvisit Bergen.com Leprosy Museum
Bergen’s wider leprosy archives are internationally significant. UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme recognises them for documenting major developments in the scientific description and understanding of leprosy. This connects the preserved hospital to the work of Norwegian physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, who identified the bacterium associated with the disease in 1873. The result is not simply a “creepy hospital” experience but a rare combination of architecture, patient history, medical science and archival evidence.[UNESCO]unesco.orgThe Leprosy Archives of BergenThe Leprosy Archives of Bergen
Oslo’s National Medical Museum offers a broader institutional history of health, disease, treatment and hospital life. Housed within the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, it acts as Norway’s central custodian for material and intangible heritage connected with medicine. Its appeal to readers interested in medical curiosities lies in historic instruments, changing treatment practices and the uneasy boundary between past medical confidence and later recognition of harm.[tekniskmuseum.no]tekniskmuseum.noOpen source on tekniskmuseum.no.
Crime, punishment and original evidence
The Museum of Justice in Trondheim is Norway’s national museum for the police, judiciary and correctional services. Its collections cover criminal investigation, courts, prisons and punishment, with displays ranging from early police history to evidence used in real cases. Unlike a sensational crime attraction, it presents the machinery of justice as a social system whose methods and assumptions have changed over time.[Justismuseet]justismuseet.noOpen source on justismuseet.no.
The most compelling material includes original crime-scene evidence, prison restraints, police equipment and an executioner’s axe. Visitors can also sit in a judge’s chair, handle a prison iron or examine how investigators used physical clues before modern forensic science. The museum occupies two historic buildings in Trondheim, including a former criminal asylum, which gives its displays an additional institutional weight.[justismuseet.no]justismuseet.noOpen source on justismuseet.no.
Credibility is central here. Objects are presented as evidence of actual legal and penal practice, not as props for a fictional dungeon. That makes the museum particularly valuable for understanding how apparently objective systems of punishment are shaped by contemporary beliefs about guilt, sanity, danger and rehabilitation. It also creates a natural link with Steilneset: both sites show what happens when authorities turn disputed ideas about deviance or threat into legal action.
Norway’s preserved coastal forts and bunkers provide a related form of unsettling heritage. At Bud Coastal Museum, for example, visitors enter a wartime bunker and former coastal-defence landscape. These sites are usually military-history museums rather than collections of curiosities, but their underground rooms, firing positions and surviving infrastructure offer a physical encounter with occupation, surveillance and anticipated invasion.[Romsdalsmuseet]romsdalsmuseet.noBud Coastal MuseumBud Coastal Museum
The mausoleum that became a museum
The Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Oslo is one of the country’s most unusual artistic interiors. Vigeland originally constructed the building as a museum for his work but later decided that it should also become his mausoleum. The result is a windowless, barrel-vaulted chamber whose walls and ceiling are covered by an enormous fresco concerned with human life, sexuality, birth and death.[Emanuel Vigeland Museum]emanuelvigeland.museum.noOpen source on museum.no.
The atmosphere is created as much by the building as by the imagery. The entrance is deliberately low, the interior is dim and the chamber has an unusually long echo. Vigeland’s ashes rest above the doorway, so every visitor passes beneath the artist’s remains. It is simultaneously a gallery, tomb, architectural experiment and personal monument.
This is not an occult collection, although it can feel ritualistic. Its themes are symbolic and religious rather than paranormal, and its intensity comes from artistic intention rather than claims of supernatural power. Access is more limited than at a conventional city museum, with visits dependent on published opening periods or advance arrangements, which reinforces its reputation as a hidden Oslo attraction.[Emanuel Vigeland Museum]emanuelvigeland.museum.noOpen source on museum.no.
Bottles, abundance and collecting for its own sake
Oslo’s Mini Bottle Gallery represents a completely different strain of eccentric collecting. It houses tens of thousands of miniature bottles arranged across numerous themed installations, and is widely promoted as the world’s largest collection of its kind. The official site currently refers to more than 40,000 bottles held in the collection, while tourism and secondary sources frequently cite a total above 53,000; the variation appears to reflect differences between bottles held, displayed or counted at different times.[atlasobscura.com]atlasobscura.comAtlas Obscura The Mini Bottle Gallery in OsloAtlas Obscura The Mini Bottle Gallery in Oslo
The gallery’s appeal lies not in the rarity of one bottle but in obsessive accumulation. Containers are sorted into theatrical displays, bars, vaults and themed scenes, turning an everyday commercial object into a cabinet of scale, branding and repetition. It is privately operated and also used as an events venue, so it sits closer to an eccentric personal collection and commercial attraction than to a national museum.[Visit Norway]visitnorway.comOpen source on visitnorway.com.
Public access has varied between regular weekend opening and group tours by arrangement. That practical uncertainty is typical of smaller unusual museums: they may function partly as collections, partly as venues and partly as appointment-only attractions. Visitors should rely on the gallery’s own current information rather than older list articles quoting historic totals or hours.[MINIBOTTLE GALLERY]minibottlegallery.comMINIBOTTLE GALLERYMINIBOTTLE GALLERYMINIBOTTLE GALLERYMINIBOTTLE GALLERY
Hessdalen: a mystery without a museum
The Hessdalen Lights are Norway’s strongest contribution to modern Fortean culture. Residents and visitors have reported unusual lights in the Hessdalen valley in central Norway for decades, with a particularly intense wave of observations in the early 1980s. The phenomenon has been described as glowing points, moving lights or luminous forms, but there is no single accepted explanation covering every report.[hessdalen.org]hessdalen.orgOpen source on hessdalen.org.
Project Hessdalen began systematic observation in the 1980s and now operates as a non-profit citizen-science organisation. Its work has included cameras, radar, electromagnetic measurements and an archive of reports and research papers. The project’s stated goal is to investigate the cause of the lights, not to declare them extraterrestrial.[Project Hessdalen]hessdalen.orgOpen source on hessdalen.org.
This distinction matters because Hessdalen is frequently marketed or discussed as a UFO hotspot. Some observations may involve ordinary astronomical objects, aircraft, atmospheric effects or misidentification; others have generated measurements that researchers continue to debate. Claims that the project has proved alien craft, intelligent plasma or a single exotic mechanism go beyond the organisation’s cautious public mission. The best-supported conclusion is that recurrent light reports are real as observations, while their causes may be varied and remain incompletely resolved.[Project Hessdalen]hessdalen.orgOpen source on hessdalen.org.
Hessdalen has no major conventional museum containing captured UFO wreckage or authenticated alien artefacts. Its “collection” is distributed across observation equipment, photographs, witness testimony, data and the valley itself. That makes it unusually relevant to Norway’s curiosity landscape: the exhibit is an unresolved natural or perceptual event, and the boundary between field station, community archive, scientific project and mystery tourism remains deliberately open.
What Norway’s strange collections reveal
Norway’s most memorable unusual museums do not form one tidy genre. They preserve several different kinds of strangeness:
- Documented persecution: Steilneset uses court records, names and contemporary art to confront witch trials without turning victims into Halloween scenery.
- Living folklore: the Troll Museums convert traditional stories into family entertainment, while national art collections preserve darker and more historically grounded visual interpretations.
- Contested sacred heritage: Sámi drums and ritual objects expose the colonial history of collecting and the importance of repatriation.
- Institutional suffering: the Leprosy Museum and Museum of Justice preserve environments in which medicine and law controlled vulnerable lives.
- Personal obsession: the Mini Bottle Gallery demonstrates how accumulation itself can become a spectacle.
- Unresolved observation: Hessdalen shows how a mystery can produce an archive and research culture even when there is no definitive object to display.
The country’s curiosity culture is therefore strongest where an unusual subject is anchored to a real place, record or collection. Its best sites do not ask visitors simply to believe. They show how belief was enforced, marketed, challenged, measured or transformed into heritage—and why the difference between a legend, a legal accusation, a sacred object and an unexplained observation matters.
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Source: uib.no
Title: unesco initiatives vestland county
Link:https://www.uib.no/en/unesco-chair/138619/unesco-initiatives-vestland-county
89.
Source: snl.no
Title: Justismuseet – Store norske leksikon
Link:https://snl.no/Justismuseet
90.
Source: bymuseet.no
Title: Visit us
Link:https://bymuseet.no/en/visit-us/
91.
Source: bymuseet.no
Title: Opening hours
Link:https://bymuseet.no/en/apningstider/
92.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/quirky-museums/
93.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/mystical-tromso/500394/
94.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/art/museums/the-national-museum-of-norway/
95.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/art/
96.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/art/museums/
97.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/paradox-museum-oslo/244317/
98.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/paradox-museum-oslo/244318/
99.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/art/museums/the-national-museum-of-norway/?ya_src=serp300
100.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/norway-a-world-class-art-destination/
101.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/bud-coastal-museum-and-ergan-coastal-fort/12454/
102.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/meet-a-sami-shaman/501648/
103.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/where-to-find-trolls-in-norway/
104.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/historic-nordnes%3A-merchants-witches-crime-%26-hidden-alleys/236328/
105.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/gr%C3%B8nsvik-coastal-fortress-lur%C3%B8y/125712/
106.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/gronsvik-coastal-fortress-luroy/138329/
107.
Source: visitnorway.com
Title: Leprosy Museum
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings//leprosy-museum-bymuseet-i-bergen/15377/
108.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/city-sightseeing-hop-on-hop-off/223694/
109.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/eastern-norway/hadeland/art-scene/
110.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/oppdal-museum/279915/
111.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/mythical-norway/
112.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/discover-norway-through-10-films/?skip=12&sort=rankTitle
113.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/millstone-park/193587/
114.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/fjord-norway/alesund-sunnmore/plan-your-trip/
115.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/once-in-a-lifetime-experiences/
116.
Source: visitnorway.com
Link:https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/norsk-folkemuseum-norwegian-museum-of-cultural-history/13145/
117.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/archivesportaleurope.net/photos/our-witchcraft-exhibition-is-back-with-the-royal-decree-from-the-kingdom-of-norw/882335514122139/
118.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Title: The Artifact Collection
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/en/the-artifact-collection
119.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/en
120.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/Samisk-kultur
121.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/Samlingene
122.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/en/stave-church
123.
Source: norskfolkemuseum.no
Link:https://norskfolkemuseum.no/en/about
124.
Source: trollmuseum.no
Link:https://trollmuseum.no/
125.
Source: trollmuseum.no
Link:https://trollmuseum.no/fr/le-musee/
126.
Source: bergen.trollmuseum.no
Title: no Besøk oss
Link:https://bergen.trollmuseum.no/nb/besok-oss/
127.
Source: bergen.trollmuseum.no
Title: no Museet
Link:https://bergen.trollmuseum.no/nb/museet/
128.
Source: bergen.trollmuseum.no
Title: no Hjem
Link:https://bergen.trollmuseum.no/nb/
129.
Source: trollmuseum.no
Link:https://trollmuseum.no/nb/museet/
130.
Source: bergen.trollmuseum.no
Title: no Troll
Link:https://bergen.trollmuseum.no/nb/museet/troll/
131.
Source: trollmuseum.no
Link:https://trollmuseum.no/nb/
132.
Source: trollmuseum.no
Link:https://trollmuseum.no/nb/besok-oss/
133.
Source: bergen.trollmuseum.no
Title: no Trolls
Link:https://bergen.trollmuseum.no/museum/trolls/
134.
Source: visitoslo.com
Link:https://www.visitoslo.com/en/product/?name=Norsk-Folkemuseum–Norwegian-Museum-of-Cultural-History&tlp=2978173
135.
Source: visitoslo.com
Link:https://www.visitoslo.com/en/product/?name=The-Mini-Bottle-Gallery&tlp=2985843
136.
Source: tripadvisor.com
Title: The Mini Bottle Gallery
Link:https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g190479-d2253883-Reviews-The_Mini_Bottle_Gallery-Oslo_Eastern_Norway.html
137.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/trollmuseet/280440/
138.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/the-national-museum-of-justice/262324/
139.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/troll-museum/228352/
140.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/lepramuseet-bymuseet-i-bergen/15377/
141.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/aktiviteter-og-attraksjoner/kunst-kultur/rare-museer/
142.
Source: visitnorway.no
Link:https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/emanuel-vigelands-museum/15569/
143.
Source: archivesportaleurope.net
Link:https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/explore/highlights/witchcraft/
144.
Source: bymuseet.no
Link:https://bymuseet.no/museum/lepramuseet/?lang=en
145.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: The story of the National Medical Museum
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/exhibitions/the-history-of-national-medical-museum
146.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: Medical museum
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/medical-museum
147.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: National Medical Museum
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/medicine?lang=nb-NO
148.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: national medical museum 2020
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/reports/national-medical-museum-2020
149.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: national medical museum 2023
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/reports/national-medical-museum-2023
150.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: Life and death Mumien Maren
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/exhibitions/life-and-death-the-mummy-maren
151.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: Life and death The mummy Maren
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/exhibitions/life-and-death-the-mummy-maren-lw6pi6m1
152.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: Maren is conserved
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/news/the-marrow-is-conserved
153.
Source: tekniskmuseum.no
Title: Mummy Maren
Link:https://www.tekniskmuseum.no/en/news/the-mummy-maren
154.
Source: rdm.no
Link:https://rdm.no/en/de_samiske_samlinger-2/ruoktot-50ars-jubileumsutstilling-til-de-samiske-samlinger/
155.
Source: misf.no
Title: coastal museum
Link:https://misf.no/en/coastal-museum/
156.
Source: atlasobscura.com
Link:https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/norwegian-museum-of-magic
157.
Source: oslofjordguide.com
Title: mini bottle gallery
Link:https://www.oslofjordguide.com/attractions/mini-bottle-gallery
158.
Source: inyourpocket.com
Link:https://www.inyourpocket.com/norway/oslo/venues/norsk-folkemuseum-norwegian-museum-of-cultural
159.
Source: historyhit.com
Title: Steilneset Memorial
Link:https://www.historyhit.com/locations/steilneset-memorial/
160.
Source: visitnorway.nl
Title: Leprosy Museum
Link:https://www.visitnorway.nl/listings/leprosy-museum-bymuseet-i-bergen/2585/
161.
Source: unescoicdh.org
Link:https://www.unescoicdh.org/eng/sub.php?code1=00000004&code2=00000068&menukey=289&mod=list
162.
Source: livhelenewillumsen.no
Link:https://www.livhelenewillumsen.no/index.html
163.
Source: livhelenewillumsen.no
Link:https://www.livhelenewillumsen.no/
164.
Source: livhelenewillumsen.no
Link:https://www.livhelenewillumsen.no/diverse.html
Additional References
165.
Source: voicemap.me
Title: Voice Map Steilneset Memorial
Link:https://voicemap.me/tour/vardo/vardo-pomors-radars-and-witches-in-the-far-north/sites/steilneset-memorial-memory-hall
Source snippet
Steilneset Memorial - Memory HallThe witch trials here in Vardø are very well documented. The trials were meant to protect innoce...
166.
Source: youtube.com
Title: Steilneset Witch Trial Memorial in Vardø, Norway
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjfCdNN3Bo
Source snippet
The Hessdalen Lights — The Valley Where Scientists Built a UFO Research Station...
167.
Source: en.varangertunet.no
Title: Steilneset Minnested
Link:https://en.varangertunet.no/varangerhalvoya/steilneset-minnested-historien-om-trolldom
Source snippet
Steilneset Minnested - The history of witchcraftThe memorial is free and open to all to visit. First, you walk through a 125...
168.
Source: youtube.com
Title: Unveiling the Mystery: Hessdalen Lights and the UFO
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT8Qsyw21xc
Source snippet
Steilneset Memorial Vardo Witch Trials Norway The Witches Memorial in Vardø. The witch trials of Vardø...
169.
Source: youtube.com
Title: The Hessdalen Lights — The Valley Where Scientists Built a UFO Research Station
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njXL_v3k48
Source snippet
Unveiling the Mystery: Hessdalen Lights and the UFO...
170.
Source: youtube.com
Title: The Witches Memorial in Vardø. The witch trials of Vardø
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg4tyy_9Xsg
Source snippet
Steilneset Witch Trial Memorial in Vardø, Norway - with commentary by Glenn Campbell...
171.
Source: youtube.com
Title: Steilneset: Witch Trial Memorial by Zumthor and Bourgeois
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNtf4LGhT_s
Source snippet
The Witches Memorial in Vardø. The witch trials of Vardø...
172.
Source: instagram.com
Link:https://www.instagram.com/p/DDbZoP6A5XL/
173.
Source: divisare.com
Link:https://divisare.com/projects/273880-peter-zumthor-helene-binet-jiri-havran-helge-stikbakke-jarle-waehler-steilneset-witch-trial-memorial
174.
Source: researchgate.net
Link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313970146_The_Collection_of_Norwegian_Witchcraft-trials_in_the_Norwegian_Folklore_Archives_Norsk_Folkeminnesamling