Hurtigruten Museum

The new building of the Hurtigruten Museum

The Hurtigrutemuseum (Norwegian: Hurtigrutemuseet ) is a maritime museum in Stokmarknes , Norway . This place is considered to be one of the founding sites of the Hurtigruten , which began its liner service in 1893. For the one hundred year anniversary of the Hurtigruten, the Hurtigruten Museum was set up in 1993 in an administration building of the former Hurtigruten shipping company Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab .

On July 4, 1999, a modern new museum building was opened right next to the old building. A highlight of the permanent exhibition is the Hurtigruten ship Finnmarken , which went into service in 1956 and which was docked on the museum grounds after being decommissioned in 1993 and can be viewed. The ship is connected to the museum via a connecting bridge.

Because of the progressive corrosion, the museum ship was briefly covered with a lightweight roof made of trapezoidal sheets. In the medium term, larger expenditures are necessary for the maintenance of the ship, which the museum cannot afford itself. The political side is therefore thinking of scrapping the Finnmarken and integrating the MS Lofoten as a floating museum ship in their place .

At the end of 2009, politicians seemed to be tending towards the solution of restoring the Finn brands in a broad-based collaborative effort and thus protecting them from ongoing decline in the long term.