Tromsø
museum (University of Tromsø), Bergen
Museum (University of Bergen), Mineralogy-Geology
and Paleontology
Museums (University of Oslo) all have excellent geology exhibits.
Vitenskapsmuseum
(NTNU) has no geologist or geology exhibit, but has a nice little
mineral
exhibit that inspires many visitors.
The doors are open to the public five days a week, from
8 to 15.45, and the exhibit is free.
(But don't get a parking ticket: there is almost no guest
parking available at Gløshaugen!)
The exhibit is 70 m2.
It includes:
Meteorites, including a Norwegian
meteorite that fell on Tromøy i Aust Agder i 1950.
Silver crystals from the historic Kongsberg silver mine (thread-silver,
plate-silver,
moss-silver,
etc..)
Gold-bearing
rock from Australia
Dinosaur egg and fragments of large
dinosaur
bone from the south of France
Jurassic
leaf fossils from the bottom of Beitstadsfjorden (Trondheimsfjorden).
Did Jurassic dinosaurs eat such plants?
Shell
fossils, 10 000 years old. Fossils like these can be collected
many places in the Trondheim area.
Important Norwegian geological resources through the years, such as:
Kongsberg
silver
Trønder copper ore from the historic Røros
and Løkken
mines
North-sea
oil.
Polished Norwegian rocks (trondhjemite,
larvikite,
Fauske marble, Otta
slate, etc.)