Stavanger Museum was founded in 1877. The museum covers a wide
range of fields with its collections and exhibitions within both
natural and cultural history. The museum has 26 permanent positions,
whereof 6 are scientific. The museum consists of four separate departments:
the Zoological Department, the Ethnological Department, Stavanger
Maritime Museum, and the Norwegian Canning Museum. In addition,
the museum has four common service departments: administration,
library, school and visitor service, and technical services.
Exhibits & Programs:
Stavanger Maritime Museum is a department of Stavanger Museum.
The Maritime Museum specializes in the maritime history of the southwestern
part of Norway. The museum has extensive collections of artifacts,
archives, photographs, and other documentation from shipping, shipbuilding
and coastal culture. The Maritime Museum owns and operates two sailing
ships that are actively used to illustrate our cultural maritime
heritage: the sloop "Anna" af Sand that was built in 1848,
and the Colin Archer yacht "Wyvern" from 1897.
