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Norwegian Olympic Museum, Lillehammer offers you a journey of the Olympics Games from its initiation to the present day. The museum attracts sports enthusiasts and sport lovers from all corners of the world. Divided into four sections, each one deals with important aspect of the game. Norwegian Olympic Museum, Lillehammer organizes varieties of related events.
Norwegian Olympic Museum in Lillehammer is a part of the Hakon's Hall venue of the popular Lillehammer Olympic Park, Lillehammer. Visitors will love the excellent display that covers all aspects of the games. The museum houses rare collection of photographs, artifacts, audio visual aids and text presentations of all the Olympic Games right from the first event held in Greece in 776 BC.
The Olympic events held in the town of Lillehammer in the year 1994 have special memories associated with the town and visitors can see them in the museums halls. The museum presents the grand ceremony of the 1994 Olympic Games in a large multi-screen.
Norwegian Olympic Museum guides the visitors with captions in various languages such as English, Norwegian, French and German. Guests can buy items associated with the Olympic Games in the shops inside the museum premises. The museum has a large car park and is easily accessible by wheelchair. In the summer months, a cafe is also functional in the museum premises.
Important Exhibits in the Norwegian Olympic Museum, Lillehammer:
- Historical section: In this section of the museum, neat displays of information about the origin to the present days of the games are highlighted. Information about the first Olympic Games that was held about 1,500 years is shared with the visitors. The stages, popularity and the general acceptance of the games are beautifully presented to the public.
- Lillehammer 94 section: These exhibition traces all the aspects of the XVII Winter Olympics held at Lillehammer in the year 1994. The Olympics Games in 1994 had 1,737 competitors belonging to 67 countries from all parts of the world. The preparation for the town for the Olympic Games to the various ceremonies, gaming arenas are clicked in framed and displayed in the walls of this hall.
- The Olympic room: This room displays awards, artifacts and vast sets of Olympic stamps collected for a period.
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