Rockheim Traditional Cache
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Rockheim is a national rock and pop museum in Norway. The museum is also tasked with gathering, preserving and distributing Norwegian popular music from the 1950s until today. It is located on Brattørkaia ("Brattøra Quay") in Trondheim, and it opened on 5 August 2010. Be careful near the road!
NORWEGIAN:
Denne cachen er plassert i nærheten av Rockheim. Museet er Norges nasjonale senter for rock og pop-kultur og nyere historie og har også som oppgave å fungere som nasjonalt arkiv og nav for et nettverk av lignende og mindre museer. Rockheim byr også på en restaurant, scene, permanent og skiftende utstilling og nettbaserte museumsopplevelser.
ENGLISH:
Rockheim is a play on the words "rock" and "Trondheim". "Heim" can also mean "home" or "home of" in Norwegian. Rockheim is one of Norway's largest preservers of national popular culture heritage. It also has a permanent exhibition that is displayed as a "journey" through modern Norwegian music and cultural history. The permanent exhibition takes up 1320 square meters. The exhibition is interactive and visitors can play, listen and create while "travelling" through contemporary Norwegian music and culture. You can learn how to play the guitar, make hip-hop tunes and experience what it is like to be in front of thousands of screaming fans.
(Based on articles on Rockheim.no)
There is also a concert venue here, as well as a restaurant and an outside recreational area (which will be a lot nicer when the construction work on the pier finishes).
For several years there was a lot of debate about the location for a Norwegian rock museum, centring mainly on the question of Oslo versus Trondheim. The government went for the Trondheim option in 2005.
Rockheim changes it's "look" quite often. Pictures of "today's look" are welcome. (best at night).
This area is called "Brattøra", and is by many described as Trondheim's newest borough. Residential buildings, as well as commercial and shopping complexes are in the planning. Museums, Norway's largest conference hotel, a large public pool/spa centre, office buildings and more have been established here over the last ten years.
FTF: Henrikvd
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