Mid-Norway's Prehistory

From the Stone Age to the Viking Era

Mid-Norway's Prehistory

Have you ever seen a pair of Iron Age shoes? What about a knife from the Stone Age? Discover some of the Museum’s oldest items, dating from the early Stone Age to the Iron Age. The exhibition displays a large collection of archeological finds from Mid-Norway.

The NTNU University Museum’s cultural history collection has a history stretching back more than 250 years. Today, the museum administers most archeological excavations in Mid-Norway, and because of this, the museum retains a large number of objects from the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age. The exhibition displays a vast array of items, like ornaments, tools, weapons, and rock carvings.

The prehistoric exhibition is the largest of its kind in Mid-Norway, and one of the oldest at the museum. It was originally opened in 1930, then secured and evacuated during the Second World War, before reopening in 1950.