About The University Museum of Bergen

The University Museum is placed in the heart of the city of Bergen, and consists of two beautiful museum buildings surrounded by a botanical garden. The Museum Garden is the tranquil extension of to the University Museum's iconic Natural History building in the city centre, and the Arboretum and Botanical Garden occupy an area of stunning natural beauty 23 km south of Bergen centre at Milde.

The museum has two main buildings on the University of Bergen city campus for public exhibitions, the Natural History building erected in 1865, and the Cultural History building erected in 1927. At The University Museum you can see some of Norways

display objects from our cultural and natural historic collection.

In the exhibitions we also take you on a journey and explain how knowledge is produced at a University. You will meet both science and research from the museums own researchers as well as the research from all over the University of Bergen. 

The University Museum it a multi-disciplinary research institution comprising natural and cultural history. The University Museum is responsible for collection, documentation, preservation, research and dissemination within its museum disciplines. The University Museums collections are an invaluable and international infrastructure for research. The disciplines are anthropology, archeology and art and cultural history, botany, geology and zoology.

The University has over 200 employees divided into The Administration, Department for Collection Management, Department of Cultural History, Department of Natural History and Department of Science and Research Communication.

The audience entering the museum door

Practical information

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The University Museum

The University Museum, Natural History

Our newly renovated museum building from 1865 host today a wide selection of new natural history exhibitions and research based exhibtion.
The Cultural History Museum

The University Museum, Cultural History

The University Museum, Cultural History is a building from 1927 and houses archeological, ethnographic and art historical exhibitions, in addition to collections from Norwegian city and rural life.
Atlasløvene

Nominated to the European Museum of the Year 2022

The University Museum's nomination video.
Illustration of vegation

The University Gardens

The Museum Garden is the tranquil extension to the University Museum's iconic Natural History building in the city centre, and the Arboretum and Botanical Garden occupy an area of stunning natural beauty 23 km south of Bergen centre at Milde.
The birds, in the main staircase birds are suspended from the ceiling, giving the impression they are flying in the sky

What is a University Museum?

A meeting place where academia meets a wider public, where things are debated, the role of science discussed; a place where we listen as much as we talk, where questions are posed as much as answers given.