Norwegian Petroleum Museum (NPM)
How are oil and gas formed? Experience the hunt for black gold beneath the seabed and join a journey at the frontiers of technology.
Follow petroleum from its origin million of years ago to the exploration and production of oil and gas in the North Sea. Learn about the technology, the dimensions, the challenges, the hardship and the excitement. New 3D-movie, "Petropolis", shows the adventures of the oil-historiy. The children’s platform "Little Troll" is always seeking new crew. Great museum shop and museum café. Admission for groups, guided tours outside normal hours. Guided tours available.
Photo exhibition that shows the impact of oil extraction on environment and human rights in the Niger Delta. The North Sea diver exhibition ranks as the largest single project mounted by the Norwegian Petroleum Museum since it opened in 1999. Texts and graphics present diving in the offshore business, while interactive stations provide visitors with a hands-on experience of how challenging it is to work "at depth".
The "Little Troll" children´s oil platform is seeking new crew. Museum shop and the Bølgen & Moi museum cafe. A new exhibition "The North Sea divers" opened 22 June at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger to coincide with the publication of a history book of this industry.
Exhibitions Consist Of:
- Oil well drill bit
- The prologue
- History of the earth
- Shooting the past
- Requiem
- Petrol Pump
- A global force
- Energy and man
- In-depth tracker
- A nation of seafarers
- At the technological frontier
- History of technology
- A universe below
- The well that went wild
- The black days
- Survival capsule
- Safety training
- Taking a journey offshore
- Take off!
- Factories at sea
- Escape chute
- Lifeboat
- Technology in depth
- The petrodome
- Petrorama
- Cinema
- Temporary exhibition
- Kid's corner
Open: All year. 01.06.–-31.08: Daily 1000–1900. 01.09–31.05: Mon–Sat 10.00-16.00, Sun 10–18
Price: 80,- (a), 40,- (c)
Guide: N, GB, D, F
Signpost: N, GB
Situated: Stavanger centre
Norwegian Petroleum Museum (NPM)/ Norsk Oljemusemum (NO)
P.b. 748, N-4004 Stavanger
Tel: (+47) 51 93 93 00
Fax: (+47) 51 93 93 01
E-mail: post@norskolje.museum.no
Internet: www.norskolje.museum.no
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