Sandefjord Museum

Sandefjord Museum s a museum positioned in Sandefjord, Norway. It is devoted to the whaling industry and is the simplest specialized museum as regards to whales and whaling in Europe. Since 2009, the museum has been associated with the Vestfold Museum. It is considered one of the largest whaling museums inside the global and Europe's only museum devoted to the whaling industry. Sandefjord Whaling Museum homes a enormous recreation of a 21-meter Blue whale, which hangs from the ceiling in one in every of its galleries. Southern Actor is based on Museum's Wharf and is a part of the museum. It is the simplest whale-catcher from the Modern Whaling Epoch nonetheless in its authentic operating order. The museum was visited by using over one million humans from its establishing until 1994.

Museum buildings in Norway. Lars Christensen had main dreams while starting the museum; to inform the general public about the Antarctic and its fauna and animal existence, as it become a particularly unknown continent on the time, and to inform the tale of whaling as an enterprise. Since its commencing, the museum has experienced some predominant adjustments consisting of a ramification in 1981. Today, the Whaling Museum's purpose is to be a crucial group in the presentation of a extensive variety of cloth connected to the records of whaling in addition to the ecology and control of whales and their habitat.