Museum · Stavanger, Norway

Norwegian Petroleum Museum

The industry that paid for modern Norway, explained more frankly than a national museum usually manages.

Norwegian Petroleum Museum is in Stavanger, and this is Stavanger — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 730 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 58.974°N, 5.734°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Stavanger · Fjord Norway · Norway

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What this atlas holds about Norwegian Petroleum Museum, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Museum
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 58.974°N, 5.734°E
In: Stavanger