Oslo - Kon-Tiki Museum 
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In an adjoining building to the Fram Museum and Shipping Museum in Oslo's Bygdøy area is the balsa-wood raft "Kon-Tiki" in which the Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed from the Peruvian port of Callao to Eastern Polynesia (April 28 to August 7, 1947). Here too are a 9.50m/30ft high figure from Easter Island, prehistoric boats, an underwater exhibition and an Easter Island family cave, as well as the 14m/46ft long papyrus boat "Ra II" in which Heyerdahl and a crew of men from eight nations crossed the Atlantic in 1970.
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Address:
Kon-Tiki Museum, Bygdøynesveien 36, N-0286 Oslo, Norway
Hours:
January 1 to February 28: 10:30am-3:30pm
March 1 to March 31: 10:30am-4pm
April 1 to May 31: 10am-5pm
June 1 to August 31: 9:30am-5:30pm
September 1 to September 30: 10am-5pm
October 1 to October 31: 10:30am-4pm
November 1 to December 31: 10:30am-3:30pm
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Norwegian National Day (May 17), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24), New Year's Eve (December 31), Good Friday - Christian
Transit: Bygdoy, Bus: 30 or ferry 91 from Pier 3 City Hall (May-Sept.).
Typical Visit: 1 hour
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