Kon-Tiki Museum Review

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Kon-Tiki Museum

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The museum celebrates Norway's most famous 20th-century explorer. Thor Heyerdahl made a voyage in 1947 from Peru to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki, a balsa raft, to lend weight to his theory that the first Polynesians came from the Americas. His second craft, the Ra II, was used to test his theory that this sort of boat could have reached the West Indies before Columbus. The museum also has a film room and artifacts from Peru, Polynesia, and the Easter Islands.

  • Cost: NKr 45
  • Open: Apr., May, and Sept., daily 10:30-5; June-Aug., daily 9:30-5:45; Oct.-Mar., daily 10:30-4
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