The Hurtigruten Museum is rich and interesting for many. If you are particularly interested in history, we recommend that you seek this out in particular:
Exhibition consisting of, among other things, the theme stations “Our Boat”, “At War”, “The Ships”, “Along the Route”, “Our Time”, “In the Beginning”, “The Passengers”, “The Risøyrenna”. These exhibits are outside the Hurtigruten ship itself, at floor level.
Exhibitions (Photo Eirik Lindner Aspelund)From the postal office (Photo Museum Nord)Exhibitions Photo Eirik Lindner Aspelund)
On board DS Finmarken: Access to smoking lounge, women’s and music lounge and cabin deck.
Presentation of the Hurtigruten Museum’s own history up to the present day – on the 2nd floor, outside the ship.
Literature about the Hurtigruten in the shop.
Richard With’s own binoculars, among several objects in the exhibition.
Exibitions in the museum Photo Eirik Lindner AspelundFrom a previous light house. Photo: Museum NordPhoto: Eirik Lindner Aspelund
The coastal express. The very first voyage July 2 1893.
Hurtigruten at war
As many as 17 Hurtigruten ships went down during World War 2. Between 1941 and 1944, small boats hired by the shipping companies operated in replacement routes between Tromsø and Kirkenes. Read more about Hurtigruta's war sailors here.
SS Prinsesse Ragnhild, the worst war time ship wreck
SS Prinsesse Ragnhild became the first ship in ordinary Hurtigruten shipping to be wrecked during World War II
Related Exhibits
MS Finnmarken’s fabric sample book
Read about the secret behind the restoration work and replenishment work that has taken place on board the Hurtigruten ship MS Finnmarken.
Marine Radar
Marine radar type Furuno 2.3 cm. The instrument is mounted in a wooden rack. Furuno Electric Co. Ltd.
Ship model of DS Lofoten
Ship model 1:16 in glass display case of the Hurtigruten ship DS Lofoten.
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