Take your children on a journey through time and space! Follow in the footsteps of kings and queens. Experience medieval treasures, cannons, eerie dungeons. FREE entrance at ordinary visits to our museums for children under 18 years of age (children under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult). Half price on guided tours. Events separate prices.
When you are visiting Bryggens Museum, you can solve puzzles and go on a treasure hunt in the exhibition Below Ground every day. Feel free to join our drawing competition! Free activity booklet and maybe a smaill prizereward for children.
Location of Bryggens Museum
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In 1274, King Magnus VI Håkonsson presented the Laws of the Land, a legislation for all his kingdom. He was the third ruler in medieval Europe to take on such great legislative work. The Laws of the Land were to be applicable law for over 400 years! For his efforts to improve the laws and the legal system, king Magnus is known to posterity by the nickname the Lawmender.
A collaboration between Bymuseet i Bergen, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen Library and Vestland municipality. It is part of the National celebration of the Laws of the Lands.
Exhibition at Bryggens Museum May 22nd 2024 – April 22nd 2025
Have you ever wondered what it was like to write an entire law book by hand using only a quill and ink?
Now you can try it yourself! In our interactive workshop, both children and adults can experience the art of writing with a real quill and ink.
Discover calligraphy—the skill of crafting beautiful letters—and explore illuminations, the colorful and decorative illustrations of medieval manuscripts. Unleash your creativity and write like they did in the Middle Ages!
Get inspired by medieval laws and create your own! The workshop offers activities with different levels of difficulty, making it fun and engaging for all ages.
The exhibition is right next to the workshop—visit before, during, or after to learn more and find inspiration.
Museum Shop and Café
Free for children – standard admission for adults.
Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
Come and see the hall of the king himself! Hundreds of knights and royal dignitaries celebrated weddings and coronation ceremonies here for hundreds of years.
How high do you think the roof is? In the lower storey, we see where the king’s scribes sat writing with their quills, and the king once kept his treasure trove in the cellar!
Due to the ongoing renovation of the reception area in Håkon`s Hall, the temporary entrance has been moved to the back of the building.
Location of the King Håkon’s Hall
At Rosenkrantz Tower, you can make your way up steep stairwells from room to room, through chambers and parlours where the princes and princesses of the Middle Ages lived. In the cellar, you can see the dark and eerie dungeon, and almost right at the top, you find the cannons, ready to be fired against pirates and enemies who were trying to capture Bergen.
Location of the Rosenkrantz Tower
In Old Bergen, the whole family can experience life in the “old days”. Here you can stroll and look in the houses, feed the birds, climb the trees.
Take a stroll in the surrounding english park which is ideal for peacefullness, inspiration. Open to all visitors. Maybe it’s tempting to take a dip in seaside bathing facility at Elsesro (Sandviken Sjøbad)? Just remember that grilling and the use of open fire is prohibited in the museum area.
This beautiful area and surrondings can be visited all year round!
