Norwegian Coastal Express Museum

The stop over on the Havila route allowed for only < 1h visit. However, walk through the original Hurtigruten was definitely worth it. Don't miss the post office in the ship!! It's the cutest part and preserved with a lot of details. Would have spent more time on reading more about the origin and the company, some explanations when you walk through the cabins about WHAT you see here, the purpose of some items, who traveled in which cabins ... In total, i have SEEN interestibg things, but I have not LEARNED/UNDERSTOOD a lot of what I have seen. So, in the shop I bought a booklet about Hurtigruten, hoping to get more insight reading it back on my ship. But it turned out to be a tourist guide to the destinations of Hurtigruten, rather than an explanation of it all. The shop is nice with some original items and Norwegion- reasonable pricing. Unfortunately, i only found that 1 leaflet in English.

I was lucky enough to visit the museum for more than the few minutes Hurtigruten Coastal-Express guest get to rush trough it. And I highly recommend to take the time to visit the museum. After a short introduction by the museum staff, i started my travel back in time. And it was simply fantastic!! The part of the "old" DS Finnmarken lets you go back in time to the beginning of the coastal lines. The cabins are equipped with beautiful contemporary decoartions. Great atmosphere! The higlight surely is the MS Finnmarken from 1956. The whole ship is like a gigantic time capsule. The spirit of the 80ies/90ies is perfectly conserved. The smell of linoleum flooring alone brought me back to my childhood. 😃 It feels like time froze, when the ships acrive career ended in 1993. There is so much love for the details. For example: the fully equipped post office, original flyers in the reception, the radio room with sounds of real radiocommunications, and even some of the closed cabins give you the feeling, that the ship is alive : you can hear people partying in one cabin, in an another one a family is discussing,... In the salon you can have some snacks and drinks. And if you take a seat there, you can completely forget, that you are still on land. It's a fantastic work, the people from the museum did and are doing to preserve the ship. I only regretted that the engine room is part of an extra guided tour. I didn't know that in advance. I have a reason to come back. :-) Thank you! Greetings from 🇧🇪!

An absolute must see - either if you have any interest at all in this essential part of Norway’s history, development and transportation OR if you just want to experience one of the most fantastic museum experiences! A ship in a bottle!! (Well in an amazing glass walled building!). One man’s dream has turned into one of the ‘must sees’ in Norway. Absolute superb presentation & information provision, with wonderfully passionate & helpful staff. What is also amazing about the museum is that 1 in 4 of the island’s population have annual tickets so it has also started to become the community hub, especially with it’s evocative coffee shop & cafe on board the ship itself. And no you can’t possibly do it justice if you only have 45 minutes in port! The last few reviews seem to miss the point. This would be a wonderful sight to see (a huge vessel in an amazing building) for even 5 minutes but you really need 2-3 hours to take in the whole story. And, to correct the last reviewer, every information board is in Norwegian, English AND German. It was an inspired move to encase this beautifully restored vessel in glass & huge thanks must be given to the dreamers & tenacious persisters who have made this possible - and the amazing team of volunteers who still turn up every day to keep everything ship shape. THANK YOU

This is the Hurtigrute Museum in Stokmarknes, Norway. It's an amazing museum. It's as if the museum was built around the ship. What I like most about this ship is that you can go directly into different rooms instead of viewing through glass. Many rooms that you wouldn't ordinarily see are open. Highly recommend.

Quick and impressive way to learn about Hurtigruten and coastal transport development. We particularly like cafe on board, and the backstory of how community effort fostered the museum. The furnishings are authentic and well preserved. There is no glass that restrict visitor access and you can enter most rooms and feel the vibes! Go around 1pm and you might spot active hurtigtruten ferries moor on the quay beside the museum. Glad to see such fabulous piece of local history be preserved so well.

A brilliantly realised museum. The ship interiors were gorgeous with plenty of mid-century modern design notes to drool over. It made me wish Hurtigruten would design its ships' interiors to echo this. We didn't have enough time to look around all of it due the the time our Hurtigruten ship was docked. We'd love to go back and spend half a day here. The museum and ship were almost wheelchair accessible. There were plenty of areas the wheelchair could access.

Amazing! Went in on a rainy day but definetely worth visiting if you want to learn about one of the Norways most important mean of transportation - the coastal express. Interactive, informative and interesting. Better than the Amundsen museum in Oslo

Excellent museum and a must do when you are in Norway, even if you are not a ship person. We have sailed on the Hurtigruten new and the old ships, so to be able to go around all of the 1956 built ship was amazing. We even managed to find the cabin in 3rd class where we had our first trip. There is a lot of information available on the ship and part of the steam ship lounges from early 1900s. They also give the story of how they saved the Finnmarken ship and the long process to build the stunning glass building that surrounds it.