Welcome to Nordlandsmuseet . Here you can experience Northern Norwegian culture and history from mountains to coast. Explore our museums and find activities and exhibitions throughout Salten.

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Experience our museum facilities at your own pace – all year round with one annual pass.

Nordlandsmuseet has museum facilities in all of Salten's nine municipalities - Bodø , Fauske , Saltdal , Sørfold , Steigen , Hamarøy , Beiarn , Gildeskål and Meløy To make this diversity more accessible, we offer Nordlandsmuseet now annual passes that give free access to our facilities.

This is what you get with the annual pass:

  • Valid for 365 days from date of purchase 

  • Unlimited entry to all Nordlandsmuseet facilities during regular museum visits.  

  • 10% discount in all museum shops  

  • The card will be sent by post or can be picked up at the City Museum in Bodø 

  • Nordlandsmuseet has free regular admission for children and young people under 18 years of age. 

Ordinary museum visits mean regular entrances, and do not include presentations, lectures, concerts or other events with separate ticket sales (e.g. mine tours at the Sulitjelma visitor mine).

About the Nordlandsmuseet

The Nordlandsmuseet Foundation collects, preserves, researches and exhibits Salten's 10,000-year history. We work to preserve cultural monuments, physical environments, objects, written sources, images and oral tradition, and make our collection available for everyone.

We manage 20 museum facilities spread over 140 buildings, around 50,000 objects, approximately 280,000 photos and 400 metres of shelving with archives. The museums are located in all nine municipalities of Salten: Bodø , Fauske , Saltdal , Sørfold , Steigen , Hamarøy , Beiarn , Gildeskål and Meløy .

Children under 18 have free admission to our museums.

Photo: Karoline OA Pettersen

Two young girls are running on a small path, surrounded by concrete walls, with an old, rusty train in the background.

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