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Would you like to become a guide at the Norwegian Fishing Village Museum?
The Norwegian Fishing Village Museum is looking for an enthusiastic guide who speaks German or French, as well as English or Norwegian. We are looking for a friendly, flexible, and reliable team player who enjoys meeting people and sharing stories. The job includes guided tours, welcoming visitors, and helping with different tasks at both the museum and our historic museum house. We offer an interesting and meaningful job in a friendly working environment.
Summer at SKREI – experiences for the whole family
Visit the Lofoten Museum this summer and experience the Nordland summer in beautiful surroundings. We organize activities and something for everyone.
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What exactly is SKREI – the museum?
SKREI is a museum. Here you can experience exhibitions, live fish, art, activities and buildings. You will sense and learn about the importance of the Lofoten fishery and the cod, and the enormous values this has created and creates for Norway.
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international nomination publisher for stockfish traditions – UNESCO Heritage List
Not only are we opening SKREI in June as an ode to fisheries and coastal culture, we have also submitted to the Directorate of Culture the nomination proposal for UNESCO’s cultural heritage list: “Stockfish – cultural and culinary traditions of stockfish and associated social practices”.
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A spectacular concert experience
Experience the sound of a herring oil tank. We offer a musical experience completely out of the ordinary
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Skrei Research Center at professional day at Kvitnes farm
On 28 and 29 April, Kvitnes Gård and the business network LoVe Food gathered actors from the entire food value chain for two days of professional replenishment, networking and food experiences in unique surroundings.
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Joint UNESCO nomination for stockfish as living cultural heritage
Museum Nord, at SKREI Research Center, and LoVE Development’s international nomination on Stockfish Production in Norway: Knowledge, Craftsmanship and Living Cultural Heritage, have joined forces with the multinational nomination for Slow Food Bergen and Slow Food Mearra-Sápmi.
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Booking
For requests for booking, events or group visits, please contact: skrei@museumnord.no
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The Vest-stretcher
Industrial pioneers had to look good. Christian Frederiksen (1865-1929) at Melbu had what was needed when the good life began to leave its mark
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Offers for children and young people At the Coastal Express Museum
The Hurtigruten Museum, with the world’s only exhibited, complete Hurtigruten ship, historical exhibitions and salons from the steamship Finmarken 1912. Here you will find offers for children and young people.
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SKREI: Museum – akvarium – gallery
Experience Lofoten fishing and cod through art, marine life and traditions. Get to know fish and sea creatures, the life of fishermen, and see everyday life along the coast through the eyes of an artist.
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Highligths of the museum
There is a lot to see in the museum. Here is a few highlights.
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For those interested in culture
The Hurtigruten Museum has a spectacular building. The inspiration is taken from something very special. Come by and learn about this – and much more:
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For history buffs
If you are particularly interested in history, we recommend that you seek this out in particular:
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The Lofoten Aquarium
Storvåganveien 28,
8310 Kabelvåg
A meeting with sealife in the Lofoten sea. Arctic cod, halibut, crabs, saithe and haddock – you can meet these and many others in the Lofoten aquarium. Feeding of the seals and otters at set times though the day. Café.
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A new dissemination sign at Lofotr’s harbour area
A new information sign has been put up at the harbour area at Lofotr Viking Museum. Now, visitors can learn more about Borgpollen as the chieftain’s harbor, and how climatic and geological changes have affected the use of this natural and protected harbor throughout the Iron Age.
Knitting café at Å
Knitting café
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Bustone
Folk medicine mixed together the mundane and the magical to cure illness.
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The Battle of Trollfjord to SKREI
“In the Otolith, Gunnar Berg’s famous painting will meet a large and international audience. To be able to convey such an iconic work of art in North Norwegian and Norwegian art history to people from almost all countries of the world is something we are very much looking forward to”, says dept. director Svein Ingvoll Pedersen.
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Traveling exhibition: My ship is loaded with…
Photo exhibition that gives an insight into everyday life and parties for a yachting family in the heyday of the 17th and 1800s.
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The children’s corset
Everyone in a wealthy family 200 years ago had to help show off the family’s status and position, even the children
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Gold Ring
The gold ring of the jekt skipper hides a secret. Can you guess what it is?
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Hurtigruten Museum nominated for EMYA 2025
Hurtigruten Museum has been nominated for the prestigious European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) 2025. The nomination is a great recognition of the museum’s work to convey Hurtigruten’s rich history and cultural heritage, and its importance for both Norway and the world.
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The danish flag of the jekta Haabet
A hand-painted treasure that waved over Peder Bruun’s jekts
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The Love Letter
Who was the unknown letter writer who loved the jektskipper’s son, Frederik Bruun?
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The Dram glass
The wooden dram glass, perhaps a collaborative project between father and daughter
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The gold laced christening cap
A small treasure from the 1700s. Gold on the christening cap was supposed to provide extra protection for the little one
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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.
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Do you want to contribute as a volunteer?
Contribute as a volunteer by catching fish and benthic animals that can be donated to the Lofoten Aquarium.
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Sealskin chest
Sealskin chest for fisheries in Lofoten. The chest is part of the collection of the Fygle Museum.
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The company’s photo album
A little treasure from VDS’s humble beginnings. The album contains portraits of employees of the shipping company.
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SS Finmarken’s two ship’s bells
Why did the SS Finmarken keep two ship’s bells? The bells are used to mark arrivals and departures, and can be used in emergency situations.
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Sailor’s cap
The simple, but beautiful sailor’s cap made from wadmol. Used by a sailor from 1977 to 1981 as a sailor on board MS Ragnvald Jarl .
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The Salute cannons of the Bruun family
Salute cannons: Have you ever been to a dinner party and thought what this really needs is a real bang to get the party started?
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The mast spire of the jekt Fremad
Once the Jekta Fremad sailed up and down the coast between Breistrand and Bergen, building prosperity and trade relations. The mast spire from Breistrand bears witness to a bygone era
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The fish hook in Langenesvær
Read about the fishing hook in Langenesvær, which became the municipal coat of arms
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Children’s shoes in fish skin
Children’s shoes in fish skin – A little girl in Alsvåg wore shoes made of fish skin during the war in Øksnes
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The final restingplace of the unborn
A box found under the church floor boards in Øksnes Church on Skogsøya. The final restingplace of the unborn
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Ard, kneard, krokard
Crokard from Åknes. Arden as an agricultural tool has a history dating back to the Bronze Age