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Scan Magazine | Special Theme | Culture in Norway
Guided Tour in the Main Building, Photo: Marte Amanda Vannebo
Portrait Tordenskiold
Yard During the Children’s Summer Day at Ringve, Photo: Harald Øren
Music Making Guide, Photo: Ingrid Dyrnes
Unbounded cultural experiences at Ringve Musikkmuseum Ringve is a museum which is dedicated to music and its history. It is located in Norway’s third largest city, Trondheim. On its tours visitors can find their favourites in the museum’s collection of 2,000 musical instruments, tales, flowers and trees from around the world. By Stian Sangvig
Ringve is situated on a country estate containing a botanical garden, and first opened its doors to the general public in 1952. “Ringve has two exhibitions,” Communications Manager Camilla Bruce explains. The exhibition in the barn is open all year round, whilst the one in the Manor House can be visited during guided tours in the summer season. In the barn visitors can wander amongst instruments from around the globe. “Exciting stories and musical treats can be heard on audio guides,” Bruce continues. In the Manor guides show tourists musical history by demonstrating historical instruments including an 18th century house organ, a 19th century disc music box and an early 20th century self-playing piano. “Among our collection of 2,000 instruments 700 of these are classical European instruments,” Bruce says. More than 25,000
sheet music prints, a photograph collection, a sound archive with pianola rolls, polyphon records, phonograph rolls and various phonograms can also be found in the collection. “Ringve’s botanical gardens consist of nearly 2,000 different plants and are divided into six sections,” Bruce outlines. These include The System, The Renaissance Garden, The Arboretum, The Park, The Prime Rose Garden and The Traditional Perennials. The botanical garden forms part of Trondheim’s NTNU University and is run by the NTNU University Museum. Visitors can buy souvenirs related to music, botany and country estate life in the museum’s musical gift shop. They can also enjoy a local lunch, dinner and traditional snacks at the Café Victoria. It is named after Ringve’s founder, Victo-
ria Bachke. Another important figure at Ringve was local naval hero Peter Wessel Tordenskiold (1690 – 1720), who spent his childhood summers on site. “On the subject of Tordenskiold we are indeed planning an exhibition dedicated to him this autumn,” Bruce finishes. Thanks to the recent growth in inexpensive air travel Trondheim is easily accessible from all over Norway and a number of major European cities. From the city centre buses number three and four pass Ringve on their way to Lade.
Bumblebee in Botanical Garden, Photo: Ingrid Dyrnes
For more information, please visit: www.ringve.no
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