Sunnmoere Museum, Alesund

Coming from London, albeit not quite what I'm used to as a museum, Sunnmore Museum was very interesting and pleasantly laid out. Covering a large area of land, from the village put together out of old wooden houses with authentic grass covered roofs, to viking ships and numerous historic boats, it's provides a few hours well spent. Some information signs were missing their English translations, and some displays were unfinished, but it's clearly a continuous work in progress and it's looking good. Also, you can actually touch items here....something which is now just a distant memory in many historical places around the world, as the obvious need to preserve becomes increasingly important as more and more people travel.

Cool place to see old Norwegian houses and boats! They give you a pamphlet to read about the houses as you walk around which is helpful too!

A good insight into early Norwegian culture. Beautiful grounds to walk & explore.

Nice open outside museum with interesting houses from the 1500-1600

I've been to many museums and always look for accuracy in items places with "period portrayal" for example; when displaying a home that dates more than a hundred years ago the furniture and items inside should come as close to matching as possible. The inside portion was a bit choppy and didn't flow chronologically. I would have loved to see more english translation so that I could learn more of what've was seeing as my Norwegian is not as fluent as needed and my google translate took a long time to reload. However, it was very cool to wander through the homes and imagine life happening in simpler times and the Viking boat replicas were spot on!