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Stavanger Maritime Museum
Stavanger Maritime Museum is in the heart of the city, a few steps from the waterfront. The museum tells the story of how the herring trade, maritime activity, shipbuilding, canning and today’s oil industry have built and dominated the city’s economy. The exhibitions are located in warehouses dating back to 1770-1840, and in Stavanger’s best-preserved merchant building.
The initiative to establish the museum came from Stavanger rederiforening, Stavanger søemandsforening and Stavanger museum. It opened in 1926. In 1985 Stavanger maritime museum moved into its current location in 200 year-old seafront warehouses and merchant buildings at Strandgaten 17-19 in Vågen, the quay in the city centre of Stavanger.
The foyer, which also functions as a café and museum shop, is at street level and has large windows facing onto the harbour, with pedestrians, swans, the sea and fish market just outside.