| The Armed Forces Museum | |
| Native Name: | Forsvarsmuseet |
| Native Name Lang: | no |
| Established: | 1978 |
| Type: | Military museum |
| Website: | Website |
The Armed Forces Museum of Norway (Norwegian: Forsvarsmuseet - The Defence Museum) is a museum located at Akershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway.[1] Previously it was named Hærmuseet, The Army Museum (even earlier the Artillery Museum). The museum consists of mostly army materiel. The Armed Forces Museum is the main museum sorting under the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum superstructure.
The museum was created in 1946 when two former military museums, the Artillery Museum (established in 1860) and the Intendant Museum (created in 1928), were merged under the name Hærmuséet. At first the museum was open only to military personnel, but was opened to the public in 1978 by King Olav V under the name of the Armed Forces Museum. The museum is located inside the Castle Square, in one of the old military arsenals from the 1860s. The main purpose of the museum is to show the Norwegian military history from the Viking Age to the present, and the museum consists of six departments:
In addition, there are periods of special exhibitions.