Museum Nord, Narvik

[1] Narvik was founded in 1902 as the railhead of the Ofoten Railway (Ofotbanen) at an ice-free port on the Ofotfjorden to allow the mining corporation LKAB to exports a large supply of iron ore from Kiruna in neighbouring Sweden.

LKAB built the Iron Ore Line (Malmbanan) to the Norwegian border.

[2][3][4][5] The building that houses Museum Nord, Narvik was erected in 1902, as the head office of the Norwegian state railway company, Norges statsbaner.

The museum is situated one kilometre from the harbour and contains models of significant bridges and landing stages.

The museum tells the stories of the building of the Ofoten Railway, Swedish mining company LKAB, development of the ice-free harbour of Narvik and the rapid transformation of the town over the past century.