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Norway
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives): National Archives of Norway 
 Tracing your Norwegian heritage? This Web site has migration, court, church, census and military records, emigrant lists, maps, real estate books, and registers of conveyances and mortgages. The site also has maps, online exhibitions (some only in Norwegian), forums, a "Digital Inn" (content provided by entities outside the National Archives), an article on tracing your ancestry in Norway, and a directory of links to additional resources. Searchable. In English and Norwegian. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/index-eng.htm Topics: Archives, Families, History, History By Place, Hobbies, Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Oct 18, 2004 Folk Figures: A Survey of Norwegian and Norwegian-American Artifacts
This digital collection features Norwegian and Norwegian-American "objects ranging from the 17th century through the 1930's that depict animals, humans, birds, fish, or supernatural figures." Searchable, or browse artifacts by subjects such as ale containers, spoons and ladles, Norwegian Romanticism, and Viking revival. From the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/FolkFiguresAbout.html Topics: Art, History By Place Last updated Aug 12, 2008 Frammuseet/Fram Museum
This museum's website provides material about the ship "Fram," and the Norwegian explorers who sailed the ship on polar expeditions. Features images and diagrams of the ship, which was launched in 1892, and profiles of explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, and Roald Amundsen. In Norwegian, Danish, and English languages. From the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway. http://www.fram.museum.no/en/ Topics: History By Place, Notable People, Regions of the World, Transportation Last updated Nov 29, 2007 Kon-Tiki Museum
Website for this Oslo, Norway, museum that "houses a range of boats and artefacts from [Norwegian explorer] Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions," including the original Kon-Tiki balsa wood raft used for his 1947 Pacific expedition. Provides summaries of the Kon-Tiki and other expeditions, research, a biography of Heyerdahl, a photo gallery, and related material. In English and Norwegian. http://www.kon-tiki.no/ Topics: History By Place, Notable People Last updated Aug 13, 2007 Norway, Sweden & Union
This website commemorates the peaceful dissolution in 1905 of the union between Norway and Sweden. Features a timeline that "allows you to follow the most important events related to the union from its establishment in 1814 to the coronation of Norway's new King in 1906," and illustrated essays related to the dissolution. Additional material is available in Swedish and Norwegian. Published by a network of Norwegian-Swedish historians. http://www.nb.no/baser/1905/english.html Topics: History By Place Last updated Jun 7, 2007 Style & Splendour: Queen Maud of Norway's Wardrobe, 1896-1938
"This display shows the spectacular wardrobe of Queen Maud, the British Princess who became Queen Consort of the newly independent Norway in 1905. Daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, Maud was renowned for her fashionable style." Features images of evening dresses, daywear, sportswear, and accessories. From the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London. http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1333_styleandsplendour/ Topics: Heads of State, History By Place, Notable People: Women Last updated Jul 11, 2005 |
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