Armed Forces Museum, Oslo

Armed Forces Museum Oslo - darkometer rating : 2 - A museum in Norway 's capital Oslo that is mainly about the country's military history. Some sections cover themes of particular interest to dark tourists – especially the Cold War , or the dark days of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during WWII . > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: cf. Norway in general, also Narvik , Kirkenes , Falstad . What there is to see: The main part of the museum's permanent exhibition is upstairs. To get to the stairs first turn right and walk through the space for special/temporary exhibitions … or see this first, which may well be worth it at least as much as the rest of the museum – see below! The initial sections of the regular exhibition go way back in time, starting with the Vikings (but only briefly), and then work their way through the Middle Ages and the long centuries of Danish and Swedish dominance in Scandinavia when Norway was under those countries' foreign rule. To be frank, I found those older historical sections quite boring and I only quickly skimmed through them. It gets a little more interesting in the section from Norwegian independence in 1905 through World War One (in which Norway remained neutral), including some life-size mock-ups of the trenches of that time, and up to the outbreak of WWII . A whole room is then dedicated to what was certainly the darkest chapter in Norway's 20th century history: the occupation by Nazi Germany beginning in April 1940.