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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.
Akershus Fortress (Norwegian: Akershus Festning, pronounced [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈfɛ̂sːtnɪŋ]) [1] or Akershus Castle (Norwegian: Akershus slott [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈslɔtː]) [2] is a medieval castle in the Norwegian capital Oslo that was built to protect and provide a royal residence for the city.
Norway's Resistance Museum also known as the Norwegian Home Front Museum (Norwegian: Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum) is a museum located at the Akershus Fortress in Oslo.. The museum collection focuses on Norwegian resistance during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945.
Akershus Fortress, located centrally in Oslo, houses among other institutions the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Mausoleum. Three of the fortifications, Akershus, Bergenshus and Karljohansvern, continue to be in regular use by the military; Akershus features the Ministry of Defence and the headquarters of the Norwegian Armed Forces. The ...
In the age of black powder, cannon allowed breaching of the fortress walls and subsequent taking by storm. As a result, fortresses changed form, now incorporating design features like the bastion , ravelin , and glacis to allow cannon within the fortress to be effective while protecting the walls and defenders from external attack.
Norwegian refugees undergoing military training in Sweden The German surrender of Akershus Fortress to Terje Rollem on 11 May 1945. Although Norway did not have any major battles beyond those of the Norwegian Campaign , a number of military operations served to subvert the Nazi authorities and contribute to the larger war effort.
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