From port to city

 

Stavanger is best explored on foot. This small town. There is little public transport, but there is a bus stop. You can also rent a bike or take a taxi.

 

From the airport to the city

- The Flybussen shuttle bus connects the airport to Stavanger. The road to downtown will take no more than half an hour's drive.

- Also city bus 42 stops near the airport building, the route of which covers Jåsund, Tananger, Sola, Forus, Kvadrat and Sandnes.

Stavanger Cathedral. The Storhaug area, near the harbor, is home to the oldest and best-preserved cathedral in Norway, first built in Romanesque style in the first half of the 12th century, and then receiving an ornate Gothic altar in the 13th century after a fire in 1272.

 

Stavanger Oil Museum. As you approach the North Sea, you can mistake the Petroleum Museum and its gleaming metal cylinders for an oil platform. This is no coincidence as the museum chronicles over 50 years of Norwegian drilling in the North Sea. The modern, well-designed exhibit includes drilling equipment, submersibles , robots, a replica of an oil platform and interactive displays that create a sense of life on board.

 

Art Museum. Sponsored by the multidisciplinary Stavanger Museum, this establishment is located on the western shore of Lake Mosvatnet, southeast of the city center. The collection focuses on the 19th century Stavanger landscape painter Lars Herterwig, who was a member of the Düsseldorf School but returned to Stavanger after a mental breakdown and received fame only posthumously. His work has been joined by a strong assortment of art by Edvard Munch, Kitty Killand and Christian Krogh.

 

Maritime Museum. One of the whitewashed wooden houses in Old Stavanger houses a museum for the history of shipping, fishing and shipbuilding in southwestern Norway.

 

Breidablik Museum. Designed as a Swiss chalet, it has a neo-Romanesque and Gothic influence. A team of artists has worked on interiors that have an excellent standard of workmanship and illustrate the high lifestyle of bourgeois Stavanger during this period.

 

Skagenkayen. The busiest night street in the city, where restaurants and bars are located in beautiful wooden houses, mostly from the 19th century, which are dominated by hotels.

 

Science Factory (Vitenfabrikken). The Science Factory explores the fields of technology, physics, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics, has several inspiring installations such as Foucault's pendulum, Tesla's coil, and Leonardo da Vinci's inventions.