Salten Museum
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The Salten Museum is a museum located in the center of Bodø, a town in North Norway. The Museum includes several exhibitions that cover North-Norwegian culture and history.
On the first floor the museum has two exhibits: one about the old traditional North-Norwegian fisheries and the international stockfish trade with the Hanseatic League, and a second covering the local Sami people (Lapps). Most of the Sami material on display is from Tysfjord, north of Bodø.
The exhibition on the second floor shows a silver treasure from the Viking age. This treasure was found in Bodø in 1919 and is one of the biggest that is known in North Norway. The treasure consists of silver jewellery and silver pieces, among them Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins.
The third floor shows an exhibit about the history of Bodø from the founding in 1816 to the present. Central to the exhibit is the German destruction of the old town during World War II, a dramatic highpoint in the town history. The exhibition also contains a 25 minute documentary with English subtitles about the town's older history (1816-1940).
