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The Kon-Tiki Museum is located on the Bygdøy Peninsula in Oslo. Via public transport, it can be reached with bus no. 30 all year round, and with the ferry to Bygdøynes in the summer season. Find us
- 23 08 67 67
- kon-tiki@kon-tiki.no
Kon-Tiki Museum. Coordinates: 59°54′13″N 10°41′53″E. Kon-Tiki Museum. Layout of Kon-Tiki Museum. Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki Museum ( Norwegian: Kon-Tiki Museet) is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. [1]
Kon-Tiki expedition. The Kon-Tiki raft at the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo. The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
- Thor Heyerdahl
- 1948
The museum's exhibits revolve around the Kon-Tiki boat, which undertook a 7,000-kilometre (4,349-mile) voyage into the unknown. The leader of the expedition, a Norwegian man named Thor Heyerdahl , had spent over 20 years obsessed with the idea of exploring the world .
Thor Heyerdahl sailed on his world-famous expeditions. After the world-famous and sensational Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, the Kon-Tiki museum opened in Oslo. Everyone wanted to see the primitive Kon-Tiki raft built according to prehistoric knowledge. Since 1950 close to 20 million people have visited the museum.
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Thor Heyerdahl’s Research Foundation. The Kon-Tiki Museum. Thor Heyerdahl’s Research Foundation is a private museum, archive, and research foundation. It preserves, documents and research Thor Heyerdahl’s life and work, and in addition it undertakes and funds research connected to Thor Heyerdahl’s research interests with a particular focus on Pacific communities, history, and prehistory.
