University Museum: Medieval Trondheim
Experience Medieval Trondheim
The Medieval Exhibition takes you back to Trondheim as it was more than 800 years ago. Visit the city’s first merchant street, Kaupmannastretet, with houses and alleys in almost full size.
The medieval city in Suhmhuset is recreated based on building remains found below the city streets. The exhibition brings you close to the medieval everyday life through artifacts from work, play and leisure: tools, shoes, game pieces, children’s toys (like a wooden sword with the inscription «Ivar»), ice skates made from bone, and the medieval version of an electric torch.
Here, you will find everything from beautifully wrought silver crucifixes to rags found in the city’s latrines – probably used as toilet paper or sanitary pads. On the building’s ground floor, you can meet Tora; a medieval woman from the 13oos, reconstructed from her skeleton.
The exhibition also includes a few artifacts from the Viking age, like the famous Kuli stone, which is widely regarded as Norway’s baptismal certificate, since it contains the earliest known mention of the word «Nóregi» – «Norway». The runic inscription also states that «Christianity had been in Norway for twelve winters …», which makes the Kuli Stone one of the earliest accounts of the new religion in Norway.
Photo: NTNU University Museum, Åge Hojem
Opening hours and tickets
Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 4 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm
The museum shop is in addition open Mondays, 10 am - 16 pm
Ringve Botanical Garden is always open
Where to find the exhibition
You can find the exhibition in the Suhm building, at Kalvskinnet Campus Trondheim.
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Additional media:
Images of the Kuli stone (text in Norwegian only)
Ticket prices
We offer half price of the following prices:
- Adults - NOK 120
- Children (6-16), students, seniors - NOK 70
- Family, group with children and adults, max. 5 people - NOK 325
- Groups with 10 people or more, when tickets purchased together - NOK 110/60
- Annual passes
Buy tickets Do you want a guided tour?
Free entrance:
- Children under 6 years
- School classes /preschools with teacher, student groups with teacher
- Individuals providing assistance
- ICOM, Ecsite, Norwegian Museum Association members