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	Ringve Museum - National museum for music and musical instruments with collections from all over the world. Located at Ringve Manor in Trondheim.
	The Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden - University Botanical Garden, Zoological Museum, Mineralogical-Geological Museum, Paleontological Museum, and The Museum School Service. Located in Oslo.
	Lillehammer Art Museum - (Lillehammer Kunstmuseum) Permanent collection of Norwegian art from 1830 to the present. Also presents temporary exhibits of Norwegian and international art. Located in Lillehammer.
	Fram - A polar museum dedicated to the story of Norwegian polar expeditions with the Fram ship used by Fridtjof Nansen as the main exhibit. [parts of the site require flash]
	The National Gallery - Nasjonalgalleriet is one of Norway's two national museums for the visual arts. Attempts to exhibit all major currents in the Norwegian visual arts. [flash required]
	Munch-museet - Art museum dedicated to the painter Edvard Munch. Offers up to date information about the museum, a general overview about Edvard Munch, images of his work with explanations, and online exhibitions. The Museum is located in Oslo. (Website is in both Norwegian and English.)
	The Ski Museum in Holmenkollen - Illustrates 4000 years of skiing history with rock carvings, skis from the time of the Vikings, and skis from all various parts of Norway. Located in Oslo.
	Varanger Saami Museum - Museum about the Coastal Saami culture, history and prehistory around the Varangerfjord. The exhibition shows settlement structure, religion, fishing, hunting and crafts, and also some of the Stone Age findings from the area.
	Norwegian Aviation Museum - Norway's civil and military aviation history. The exhibitions at the Norwegian Aviation Museum are the result of a co-operation between NL, the Military Defence Museum and the Norwegian CAA Museum.
	Norwegian Emigrant Museum - The museum's purpose is to reveal the workings of a process in society - emigration, immigration and return migration.
	Norwegian Folk Museum - A museum with exhibits from all parts of Norway. Exhibits focus on life in "The Old Town" and in typical Norwegian farmsteads.
	Viking Ship Museum - The exhibits are the finds from the great ship burials at Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune as well as finds from the chieftain grave at Borre, Vestfold county.
	Borg Viking Museum - A reconstruction of a chieftain's homestead in Norway, based on the discovery of a remarkably large building. Includes an illustrated description of the excavation by Tromsø Museum.
	Maihaugen - Open-air museum with 185 buildings, mostly from Lillehammer town and the Gudbrandsdalen valley. Located in Lillehammer. The museum also houses handicraft exhibits.

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Museums Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Museums Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Museums "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner Museums "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Museums The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain Museums Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton Museums What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Museums "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Museums She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Museums Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Museums Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton Museums Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Museums Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Museums Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Museums The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Museums "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Museums How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Museums We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Museums Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exup�ry) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." 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