Oslo - a city of seafarers

Even the museums of Oslo are a reminder that the city created the sailors. Museum Kon - Tiki "is one of the most visited places in Oslo. This is a private museum founded by the famous traveler Tour Heyerdalom (1914 - 2002). His expedition spent studying the great Norwegian maritime routes of ancient man. Thus, the first expedition in 1947 which has become legendary in the balsa raft Kon - Tiki had to prove that South American Indians could settle Polynesia. 101 days and 8000 km voyage across the Pacific, after which the raft sailed to the atoll Raroia, testified in favor of the theory, Heyerdahl. Today, a raft along with the things of the expedition and a boat of papyrus "Ra" - H is in the eponymous museum. Another of the famous museums in the Oslo Viking Ship Museum, which displays Osebergsky ship Tyunsky Gokstadsky ship and ship. 22 - meter Osebergsky ship Drakkar Viking, according dendrological analysis, was launched in the first half of the IX. and subsequently was used for burial. Although the mound with a burial was looted, archaeologists all - have managed to extract from it much valuable, in addition to the ship itself, were found the remains of silk fabrics, wooden cart and the remains of two women, apparently belonging to the nobility. Gokstadsky ship whose length is 24 m, was also used to bury the Vikings. A replica of this ship was made in 1893, and twelve young Norwegians sailed on this ship across the Atlantic in the World's Fair in Chicago. It was a symbolic exhibition dedicated to 400 - anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus and was even called "Kolumbovskoy" as the Norwegians so clearly challenged the priority of Columbus and upheld the glory of their ancestors, the Vikings. In the ancient collection of the Historical Museum in Oslo are a lot of exhibits era of these great sailors. Museum of the Fram in Oslo shows the ship on which were carried out expeditions of the great scientists of the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen (1901 - 1973) and Raoul Amundsen (1872 - 1928) to the North and the South Pole in 1892 - 1912 years. The unique technology used in the construction of the Fram, allowed that vessel to withstand the pressure of polar ice. It is on the "Fram" Amundsen in 1911 sailed to the coast of Antarctica to reach the dog sled to the South Pole. In Oslo, of course, is the Norwegian Maritime Museum, which exhibited a collection of schooners and boats, as well as the reconstructed polar ice breaking yacht "Joa", which Amundsen in 1903 - 1905 years. managed to go from Greenland to Alaska. Expedition had to spend the winter in the ice of 1903 - 1904 As he himself wrote Amundsen, "On his return all defined my age between 59 and 75 years, although I was only 33." Of course, museums and attractions devoted to Oslo, not only of voyages and discoveries. World-renowned Museum of painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), whose painting "Scream" has become a tragic symbol of the XX century. In 2004, she was stolen from the museum and came back only in 2006, is one of the most famous buildings of the Oslo-New Town Hall, whose construction lasted 17 years, and it was opened in 1950, to 900 - anniversary of the city. Many Norwegian artists, including Munch, worked on its interior. It is held annually awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. In this present royal family of Norway. It is believed that awarding the prize in Oslo, Nobel stipulated in honor of the Norwegian Parliament, which was the first in the world support the movement of pacifism.