Kon Tiki & Ra II Museum

The Bygdoy peninsula in Oslo is home to several interesting museums: a sea-faring museum, an open air historical village museum, the Vikingskiphuset, and the Kon Tiki & Ra II museum. This museum is a wonderful tribute to the explorations of Thor Heyerdahl and contains the 2 crafts plus incredible artifacts from Easter Island, Polynesia and Peru. The first photo is of the Kon Tiki (a balsa raft sailed from Peru to Polynesia) and the second two are of the Ra II and Kevin with the Ra II (a papyrus boat sailed from Morocco to Barbados). In a nutshell, Mr. Heyerdahl and his colleagues wanted to prove that ancient peoples could have reached other continents using their "primitive" boat building methods. Hmm, that's a pretty pathetic nutshell...for more information about their amazing adventures, go to:
http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/kon-tiki/Expeditions/
I knew absolutely nothing about Thor Heyerdahl and his expeditions before going to the museum--Kevin and I made the drive down to Oslo specifically to see the Vikingskiphuset, but that museum didn't open until 11 AM, and the Kon Tiki & Ra II opened at 10:30 AM, so it was a happy accident that we arrived at the Bygdoy peninsula a little early and stumbled into the world of Mr. Heyerdahl.