Sandefjord Museum

It is the only whale-catcher from the Modern Whaling Epoch still in its original working order.

[12] The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord (Hvalfangstmuseet i Sandefjord) was inaugurated as a donation from Consul Lars Christensen, the son of Norwegian shipyard and ship owner, Christen Christensen.

Lars Christensen had two main goals when opening the museum; to inform the public about the Antarctic and its fauna and animal life, as it was a relatively unknown continent at the time, and to tell the story of whaling as an industry.

The museum's photo collection consists of 150,000 photographs around 30,000 of which are related to whaling.

[19] Exhibits include Southern Actor, a whale catcher built 1950 for Chr.

Sandefjord Museum designed 1917 by architect Niels Winge Grimnes
A bronze polar bear made by sculptor Skule Waksvik is by the main entrance. [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
Southern Actor built 1950 for Chr. Salvesen & Co. Leith, Scotland
Flensing av blåhval by Carl Dørnberger ca. 1927