The Hanseatic Museum & Schøtstuene

Bergen is Norway's second largest city and has been an important trading centre since the Middle Ages. This is largely due to a group of travelling German traders, known today as the Hanseatics, who had a strong presence in the city for many hundreds of years. A museum was put in place to highlight this interesting and fascinating part of Bergen's history. The museum gives you a thorough insight into what trading with the Hanseatics meant not only for Bergen, but for the whole of Western Norway and the coastal communities to the north. You also get to see how people lived at this time, and to learn about the value generated by the trade.