At the four Universities in Norway there are many museums and collections that contain information on a wide range of aspects of Norwegian language and culture. The Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy, Oslo, and the historical museums and the museums of natural history in Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, and Tromsø are well-known. However, there are other, less well-known collections that are comprehensive and important. Some of these are: Norsk Folkeminnesamling (the Norwegian Collection of Folklore), Norsk folkemusikksamling (the Norwegian Collection of Folk Music), Myntkabinettet (the Collection of Coins and Medals), Runearkivet (The Runes Archives), and large collections of place names and other aspects of the Norwegian language.

The links in bold will take you to information in English, whereas links in plain text will take you to the archives, which in general are in Norwegian.

Archaeology About the Archaeology Files Prehistoric Artifacts, Sites and Monuments in Western Norway The Main Catalogue of the Artefact Collection (Oldsaksamlingen) The Archaeology Database (prototype) Lexicography About the Electronic Dictionaries The Bokmål Dictionary (Bokmålsordboka) The Nynorsk Dictionary (Nynorskordboka) The Lexical Source Manuscript (Grunnmanuskriptet) Multitagger (morphological analysis) About texts Literary texts - Bokmål Older collections of words About the Word Archives The Norwegian Dictionary (Norsk Ordbok) The Norwegian Dictionary (Norsk Ordbok) - Additions after 1990 The Dictionary of Dialect Words from the Trøndelag Region (Trønderordboka) The New Words Database About The ALLEX Project Duramaswi RechiShona (Monolingual Shona Dictionary) Folklore studies Reminiscence Records About the Ballads Norwegian Ballads Exhibition: The Ballad Jukebox

History About the Court Proceedings and Protocols Court Proceedings and Protocols Medieval material About the Diplomatarium Norvegicum Diplomatarium Norvegicum Literature About the Collection of Texts The Collected Works of Henrik Wergeland Place names About the Place Name Databases O. Rygh: Norwegian Farm Names The Land Register Draft of 1950 (Matrikkelutkastet fra 1950) The Home Name Register (Bustadnavnregisteret) The Place Name Archives at the University of Tromsø Audio recordings at the University of Tromsø Writings by school children from Nordland and Troms counties (the Indrebø material) Literature list, the Etymology register in Uppsala, Sweden Coins/Numismatics Exhibition: "Norwegian Coins through 1000 years"