Rogaland
Stavanger
Stavanger moved through several economic identities: medieval bishopric, herring port, canning capital and centre of Norway’s offshore petroleum industry. Its cathedral, wooden harbour streets, factories, maritime museums and oil infrastructure make the city unusually good at showing how one coastal community repeatedly reinvented itself when an old economy failed.
Stories in Stavanger
- Stavanger Cathedral — A Bishopric Creates a City Centre
- Gamle Stavanger — Wooden Housing Behind the Harbour Economy
- Norwegian Canning Museum — When Sardines Industrialized the City
- Valberg Tower — Fire Was an Urban Infrastructure Problem
- Maritime Museum — Herring, Shipping and the Atlantic World
- Norwegian Petroleum Museum — The North Sea Rewrites Stavanger
- Stavanger Museum — A Port Collects the Wider World
- Sverd i fjell — A Battle Remembered as National Unification