Kon-Tiki Museet
Kon-Tiki Museet is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. Tryvannshøgda stands 530 m to the north, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Moai, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) gained worldwide fame when he crossed the Pacific Ocean on Kon-Tiki in 1947 and followed up with spectacular expeditions on the reed boats Ra and Tigris.
The story
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. It was opened in a provisional building in 1949. In 1957, the current building—designed by architects F. S. Platou and Otto Torgersen—was opened. In 1978, an extension of the museum designed by Torgersen was opened. The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. Another boat in the museum is the Ra II, a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed. Beneath the raft is a model of the whale shark that the crew encountered on the voyage. The Kon-Tiki Museum is situated near several other museums including the Fram Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum. Since 1986, the museum has periodically repatriated items collected by Heyerdahl to Easter Island, with the most recent occurring in 2024.
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Dates from 1949.
Wikidata Q1415972, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Thor Heyerdahl's Research Foundation
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Moai: 0.0 mi
- KON-TIKI: 0.0 mi
- Inuksuk: 0.1 mi
- 90 grader syd: 0.1 mi
- Anne Stine og Helge Ingstad: 0.5 mi
- Framhuset;Frammuseet: 0.0 mi
- Norsk Maritimt Museum: 0.1 mi
- Norsk Farmasihistorisk Museum: 0.4 mi
- Vikingskipshuset: 0.5 mi
- Norsk Folkemuseum: 0.6 mi
- Reist av Det Norske Sjømannskor ved Oslo Sjømannskirke i 1966 Flyttet hiti 2016: 0.1 mi
- TAKK NORGE FOR FRIHETEN FRA VIETNAMESISKE BÅTFLYKTNINGER OG DERES FAMILIER: 0.1 mi
- Krigsseilermonumentet: 0.1 mi
- Minnesmerket over handelsflåten 1914–1918: 0.1 mi
- Villa Paus: 0.2 mi
- Den engelske hagen: 0.3 mi
- Norsk Folkemuseum: 0.5 mi
- Skillebekkparken: 0.8 mi
- Skarpsnoparken: 0.8 mi
- Frøyas have: 0.9 mi
- Store Herbern naturreservat: 0.5 mi
- Galteskjær biotopvernområde: 0.7 mi
- Kavringen naturreservat: 0.9 mi
- Lindøya naturreservat: 0.9 mi
- Nakkeskjær biotopvernområde: 1.1 mi
- Tjuvtitten: 0.8 mi
- The Salmon Vitensenter: 0.9 mi
- D/S Alfen: 1.1 mi
- Hovedøya kloster: 1.2 mi
- Oslo rådhus: 1.4 mi
- Huk: 1.0 mi
- Huk naturiststrand: 1.0 mi
- Paradisbukta: 1.1 mi
- Homolulu: 1.2 mi
- Vækerøstranda: 1.8 mi
- Skøyenhaugen: 1.6 mi
- Speilen: 1.8 mi
- St. Hanshaugen: 2.2 mi
- Ormøykollen: 2.8 mi
- Ullernåsen: 3.0 mi
- Møllefossen: 2.3 mi
- Nedre Foss: 2.3 mi
- Granfossen: 2.5 mi
- Bjølsenfossen: 3.6 mi
- Den hvite foss: 6.4 mi
- Hospitalhagen: 2.5 mi
- Blindern Studenthage: 2.5 mi
- Vikinghagen: 2.6 mi
- Slåttemark: 2.6 mi
- Osloryggen: 2.6 mi
- Skådalsstupene: 4.7 mi
- Barnehageveggen: 5.4 mi
- Cowboyveggen: 5.4 mi
- Bjørnestupet: 5.5 mi
- Årvoll gruve: 6.5 mi
- Kilden: 6.0 mi
- Pipekvila: 9.0 mi
- Majorskilden: 9.3 mi
- Simensølla: 10.3 mi
- Olavskilden: 13.3 mi
- Grillområde: 2.4 mi
- Sofienbergparken: 2.6 mi
- Piknikplen: 2.7 mi
- Bord: 2.8 mi
- Masjørgengruva: 10.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.3 miles of Kon-Tiki Museet. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tryvannshøgda | N 350° | 530 m | 6.0 mi |
| Frønsvollsåsen | N 358° | 475.3 m | 6.1 mi |
| Vettakolltoppen | N 1° | 419.2 m | 4.8 mi |
| Vettakollen | N 0° | 419 m | 5.0 mi |
| Rishøgda | N 1° | 411 m | 5.6 mi |
| Grefsenkollen | NE 43° | 380 m | 5.3 mi |
| Grefsenkollen øst | NE 45° | 374 m | 5.4 mi |
| Holmenåsen | NNW 344° | 373 m | 4.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:21 | 17:36 | 18:31 |
| June solstice | 03:55 | 21:25 | 22:45 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:26 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 09:19 | 13:07 | 15:13 |
Local time (Europe/Oslo).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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