Nidaros Domkirke

Nidaros Cathedral is Scandinavia’s largest medieval building, and also the northernmost Gothic structure in Europe. External, the ornately embellished, altar-like west wall has top-to-bottom statues of biblical characters and Norwegian bishops and kings, sculpted at the early 20th century. Several are duplicates of medieval originals, nowadays placed in the adjacent museum. Notice the luminous, vibrant colors of the contemporary stained glass at the window at the west end at contrast to the inner workings. Photography not allowed.

Rockheim

This fantastic memorial is dedicated to pop and rock songs, mainly Norwegian, by the 1950s until yesterday. It is a dockside temple into R&B, in which a huge casting roof featuring Norwegian record covers extends above an equally vast transformed warehouse. Inside, there is lots of action and interaction (combine your very own hip-hop tape, by way of example). House of Rock is about the quayside, quite near Pirbadet and also the fast-ferry landing stage.

Archbishop’s Palace

Even the 12th-century archbishop’s home (Erkebispegården), commissioned around 1160 and Scandinavia’s oldest secular building, is together with the cathedral. In its west , you are going to find Norway’s glistening crown stones and its own museum. After seeing the well-displayed statues, gargoyles and carvings out of the cathedral, fall to the lower level with a collection of this myriad artefacts revealed through the museum’s most late-1990s structure.

Stiftsgården

Scandinavia’s largest wooden palace, the most 140-room late-baroque Stiftsgården, was built as a private house from the late 18th century, even at the peak of Trondheim’s golden age. It’s currently the official royal residence in Trondheim. Admission is by tour every hour on the hour. The freely accessible garden around the east side (input via Dronningens gate) is one of Trondheim’s loveliest corners.

Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum

Three kilometres west of the center, this folk memorial is one of the very best of its type in Norway. The indoor display, Livsbilder (Images of Life), displays artefacts being used throughout the last 150 years — in clothes to school supplies into ornate sleds. The remaining portion of the museum is open-air, including more than 60 interval buildings, many of which you can go into, adjoining the ruins of King Sverre’s castle and providing excellent views of the town.

Gamle Bybro

There has been a bridge since 1681, linking the town with all the Kristiansten Fort and guarded at each end by a watch-house (although one now remains, now inhabited by a kindergarten). The current bridge dates from 1861, and it is a beauty — pedestrianised and clad in planks, it is the very best place in the city to find that essential chance of Trondheim’s riverside warehouses. It is also the fastest way to get around to Bakklandet in town center.

Ringve Music Museum

The Ringve Museum is now Norway’s national memorial for both songs and musical devices. The Russian-born proprietor was a dedicated collector of rare and antique musical instruments, which pupils demonstrate. You can also navigate the older barn with its abundant selection of tools from around the globe. Even the botanic gardens, place inside the encompassing 18th-century estate, are a quiet green setting for a wander. Take bus 4 or 3 and walk around the mountain.

Kristiansten Fort

To get a bird’s-eye view of town, climb 10 moments in the Gamle Bybro into Kristiansten Fort, constructed after Trondheim’s great passion of 1681. During WWII the Nazis employed it as a prison and execution floor for members of the Norwegian Resistance. The reasons are available year-round at no price, whenever the flag has been raised.

Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum

The permanent group with the glorious museum shows the very finest of Scandinavian style and design, for example a couple of bijou art-nouveau rooms. A complete floor is specialized in the pioneering works of three acclaimed female artists: the tapestry creations of Hannah Ryggen and Synnøve Anker Aurdal, and also the innovative glasswork of both Benny Motzfeldt.

Trondheim Kunstmuseum

Trondheim’s Art Museum, a stone’s throw away from the cathedral, houses a permanent collection of contemporary Norwegian and Danish art from 1800 onwards, such as a hallway of Munch lithographs. It also runs temporary displays.

Museum of Natural History & Archaeology

This tradition belongs to the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU). There is a hotchpotch of displays on the natural and human history of the Trondheim area: streetscapes and houses, ecclesiastical tradition, archaeological excavations and southern Sami tradition. More arranged is that the small, alluring display in a negative construction dedicated to church background, and also the fascinating everyday artefacts of this medieval segment, covering Trondheim’s heritage up to the great fire of 1681.

Munkholmen

Throughout Trondheim’s early years, the islet of Munkholmen, 2km abroad, was the city execution floor. Through the years it has become the site of a Benedictine monastery, a prison, a fort and, finally, a customs house. Today it is a popular picnic place and has the town’s finest beach. By mid-May on September, ferries leave at least hourly between 10am and 4pm or 6pm from exploiting the Ravnkloa Fish Market.

Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst

Run with artists, this gallery space showcases all that’s innovative and experimental at the local and national art scene. From the manner of contemporary galleries, it will not always be on everyone’s taste, however it is a restless and endlessly creative exhibition space and it is well worth stopping to find out what’s happening about the constantly changing calendar of exhibits. There are free guided tours at 1pm on Sundays whenever there is an exhibition .

Synagogue

Trondheim’s synagogue claims are the planet’s northernmost. It has a small tradition dedicated to the foundation of the local Jewish community, that was decimated by the Holocaust. Admission is by guided tour. For all those that have a deeper curiosity, an information board and map out shows websites around the town with historical links to Trondheim’s Jewish neighborhood.

National Military Museum

At precisely the same courtyard as the Archbishop’s Palace, the National Military Museum is filled with antique swords, armour and cannons, and spanned the days in 1700 to 1900, once the palace served as a Danish military installation. On the upper floor is your Hjemmefront (Home Front) museum, dedicated to Trondheim’s function at the WWII resistance.

King Olav Tryggvason Statue

The epicentre of city is currently Torvet, the central square (also spelt’Torget’) with its statue of King Olav Tryggvason atop a pillar that acts as a massive sundial. The somewhat overburdened square is slated to get a seven-year overhaul from late 2017.

Trondhjems Sjøfartsmuseum

Suitably near the river, that this small island is dedicated to the town’s maritime history. It is probably just of specialist attention, but for people who like large ships and children who like to place to a captain’s cap and twist the wheel.

Olavskirken Ruins

During excavations to its library at Kongens gate, archaeologists discovered that the ruins of a 12th-century church, also considered to be more Olavskirken, currently observable beneath the courtyard, along with the skeletons of 2 adults and a kid.

Hospitalkirken

The cobblestone roads immediately west of this center are lined mid-19th-century wooden structures, notably the octagonal 1705 wood church, Hospitalkirken, from the hospital grounds.

Leif Ericson Statue

If you are out of the USA, then the Viking staring out to sea near the Hurtigruten quay may appear familiar. That’s because he has an exact replica of this Ericson statue in Seattle that commemorates the thousands and thousands of Norwegian emigrants to the New World.