The wool heritage route: The wool history
Visit Bergen
For over 5000 years wool has played central role for the people on the coast of Norway. Visit the museums that tell the exciting story!
This collection of museums in the Bergen region tells the full story about wool, sheep farming and the craftmanship. Learn about how the landscape was cultivated at The Heathland centre at Lygra and taste the magnificent wild lamb in the restaurant, Matstova. In the Norwegian Knitting Industri Museum, they tell the story of how the textile industry became the largest industry in Norway. The Vikings travelled the world at sea with raincoats made of wool. The story is told at Osteroy museum. And at the Western Norway Emigration museum, the story about the wool on the prairie is told.
