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 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 will be closed permanently on March 2nd in connection with museum upgrades.

Photo: Åge Hojem/NTNU University Museum