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The Norwegian Petroleum Museum documents oil and gas production in the North Sea since the first drilling in the mid-1960s. Designed by Lunde & Løvseth and opened in 1999, the building on Stavanger harbour stands partly on piles in the water and is shaped like a small platform. Exhibits include platform models, drilling equipment, diving gear and films.
Ledaal is a manor house at Eiganesveien 45 in Stavanger, built in 1799–1803 for the merchant Gabriel Schanche Kielland, who named it after the last letters of his and his wife's names. Bought by Stavanger Museum in 1936, it is the King's residence in Stavanger and a museum with period interiors, set in a protected park laid out in French style.
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Exhibition centre at Kornwerderzand on the Afsluitdijk, about the causeway that closed off the Zuiderzee and the Wadden Sea behind it.
The Norwegian Canning Museum occupies a former sardine cannery at Øvre Strandgate 88 in Old Stavanger and recalls the canning industry that shaped the city from 1873 to 1982. Opened in 1982, it shows the production line, the machines and the smoking ovens, and since the opening of IDDIS it shares a site and ticket with the Norwegian Printing Museum.
Old Stavanger is a preserved quarter of about 170 white wooden houses from the 18th and early 19th centuries on the west side of the Vågen harbour. Post-war plans would have replaced them with concrete buildings, but in 1956 the city council voted to keep them at the urging of city architect Einar Hedén. Most houses are private homes along cobbled lanes.
Local heritage museum in Workum displaying regional history, artifacts, and historical exhibits.
Uppsala Botanical Garden belongs to Uppsala University and lies directly west of Uppsala Castle, on land King Gustav III gave the university in 1787. It has a formal baroque garden, the Linneanum orangery with Mediterranean trees in winter, a tropical greenhouse with a giant water lily, a Scandinavian mountain section and a kitchen garden.
Carolina Rediviva is the main building of Uppsala University Library, built in 1820–1841 to designs by Carl Fredrik Sundvall at the top of Drottninggatan. Its exhibition hall by the entrance shows the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century Gothic gospel book written in silver ink, the Carta marina map of 1539 and changing displays from the library's collections.
Uppsala Castle is a royal castle begun under Gustav Vasa in 1549 on a ridge above the city, rebuilt in stages after the fire of 1702. The pink wings hold the residence of the governor of Uppsala County and Uppsala Art Museum, with modern and contemporary art on three floors; the gun battery on the bastion still faces the cathedral.
Gustavianum is the oldest surviving building of Uppsala University, built in 1622–1625 with funds from Gustavus Adolphus and used as the university museum since 1997. Olaus Rudbeck added the anatomical theatre under the cupola in the 1660s, and the collections include the Augsburg Art Cabinet, Egyptian antiquities and Viking Age finds.
Uppsala Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, a Gothic brick church begun in the 1270s and consecrated in 1435; it is 118.7 metres long and as tall. Its chapels hold the tombs of Gustav Vasa and John III, Carl Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg are buried here, and the Skattkammaren treasury shows medieval textiles and royal regalia.
Upplandsmuseet is the county museum of Uppsala County, housed in Akademikvarnen, a university water mill on the Fyris river completed in 1768 and in use until 1946. Its exhibitions cover the history of Uppland and the city of Uppsala, with a separate exhibition for children, and the mill's exterior appears as the bishop's house in Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander.
The Linnaean Garden is the oldest botanical garden in Sweden, laid out by Olaus Rudbeck the Elder in 1655 and rearranged by Carl Linnaeus, who ran it from 1741. It is kept to his 18th-century plan, with more than 1,000 species grown in his sexual system, and the professor's house where he lived from 1743 is the Linnaeus Museum, with furniture and objects of the family.
Linnaeus's Hammarby is the 18th-century farm that Carl Linnaeus bought in 1758 as a summer home, in the countryside about 10 km south-east of central Uppsala. The red log houses keep the family's rooms, shown on guided tours, the park grows plants Linnaeus himself cultivated, and the surrounding cultural reserve with walking paths is open all year.
Visitor centre at Oudemirdum in the Frisian Gaasterland, explaining the woods, the cliffs and the lake shore around it.
Museum dedicated to Frisian ice skating history and heritage, with integrated restaurant and shop.
Museum showcasing the maritime history and unique cultural heritage of Hindeloopen, including regional painting styles and historical artifacts.
Gamla Uppsala, north of central Uppsala, was a royal and religious centre of the Svear in the Iron Age. Three large burial mounds from around the 6th century rise beside a wider grave field, and the medieval stone church next to them stands where the first cathedral of Uppsala stood until the archbishop's seat moved south in 1273.
Gamla Uppsala Museum stands beside the royal mounds in Gamla Uppsala, north of central Uppsala, in a timber-clad building by the architect Carl Nyrén that opened in 2000. The ground floor tells the site's history from the Iron Age with recent excavation results, and the upper floor shows original finds from the mounds and an exhibition on the runestones of Uppland.
The German Football Museum is the national museum of German football, located in Dortmund near the central station. It opened in 2015 and traces the history of the German game through its permanent exhibition, including memorabilia from national and club football, World Cup trophies, and the Hall of Fame honoring the country's leading players and coaches.
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