Rockheim

Intersting museum about Norwegian music. But for a metalhead on holiday in Norway, the real gift is a section about black metal. And this time a second gift: a temporary exhibition about origin of this subgenre. Generally speaking the museum has many interactive stations to access the material you're interested in. The workshop area is beautiful, you can create your own track by mixing instruments with stations that make everything easy. 1 or 2 hours well spent

Well designed museum with interactive exhibitions about the Norwegian Music Culture. You can even create your own music in a “lab”, here more explanations how to use the Synthesizer would be important. Overall 100% worth to visite, free lockers are available, plan min. 2 hrs.

Wonderful interactive experience. I enjoyed my 2 hours there but definitely need more to play with every exhibit.

Absolutely fantastic audio visual experience. A superb showcase of Norwegian modern and contemporary musicians as well as tracing the development of modern music in Norway. Several Norwegian bands from the world stage as well as excellent content of Norwegian artists generally. Loved it. Virtually all the exhibits are in both Norwegian and English.

The highlights are at 6th and 4th floor. You can go thru the history of Norwegian Music from 50's to millenium era. There are also some unique genres here in the museum.

An excellent museum full of interactive exhibits and various ways to engage and learn about Norwegian music. The English speaking tour was also worth doing at 11am - A 45min quick overview of music from the 50s to the present. There is also an opportunity to mix your own song as well and access it online. Aside from the ground floor ticket office and shop, the majority of the exhibit and cafe are located higher up in the building. Pretty much all the information was available in English and the museum was accessible and friendly. No queueing on a Sunday morning and plenty of space to explore. Very close to the cruise port, so a recommendation for those with a day in the city and no set excursions. Just be aware that it is easy to get lost in all the music and spend the whole day here. I really wish we had more interactive museums like this back in the UK... Would certainly make learning far more engaging!!

Great place to learn about Norwegian music changing over the time!

Saw this from the ship deck. Because of an excursion and an accident on that excursion, we never got to get any closer, but it looks fascinating.

So much lost potential here. I went to Rockheim expecting to learn a lot about Norwegian popular music. Instead, what I got was mostly a wanky multimedia experience with old touchscreens and laser pointers that basically only played music videos, songs, and showed pictures -- things I could easily pull up on Youtube. The only good part was the wall of instruments and other recording devices where you could pull up info about the object, learn about the history, what artist used it, listen to songs it was in, etc. But that was only about 10% of the museum. The rest was multimedia hell (and I'm a computer nerd) that didn't inform at all about Norwegian music history. For example, the Hip Hop room had a computer game you could play to remix some songs (what's the point?) and a laser pointer that you could use to scribble graffiti on the wall. That's it. No info at all about the history of Norwegian hip-hop, sub-genres, artists, etc. Just games. This kind of superfluous interactive fluff was the majority of the museum. Very disappointing. Although I'm sure that the Canadian company that designed this crap is laughing all the way to the bank, given that Norway spent millions on this junk.

Fun for the whole family on a rainy day! Rockheim is an interactive museum about Norwegian music history. I am no music expert but I still had a wonderful time. There is information both in English and Norwegian, and kids love it because it is interactive with instruments, laser guns and touch screens! Adults love it because of the music, and the reminiscing! Absolutely worth stopping by if you have the time.

Being from America we were interested in Norwegian music history. All-in-all, this was a good way to spend a rainy day and we had fun. It was faily interactive, with instruments which could be played, dubbers, and more. Only two decades were well documented despite being told it was six decades, but all-in-all a good time was had.