Travel Reference
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oftheOldTownandaninterestingcollectionofrelicsfromthreecenturiesofFredrikstad's
civilian, military and industrial activities. Also on the top floor is a military museum.
Isegran
ISLAND, MUSEUM
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(
www.isegran.no
,
in Norwegian; combined ticket with Fre-
drikstad Museum adult/child Nkr50/20; noon-5pm Tue-Sun mid-Jun-mid-Aug)
Fredrikstad Museum has another section on Ise-gran, an islet across the Glomma. Norse
sagas mention the 13th-century fortress of Isegran, which later became a further line of de-
fenceagainstSwedeninthemid-17thcentury.The
ruins
ofastone(originallywood)tower
remain visible at the eastern end of the island. It's also the site of a small museum on local
boatbuilding (from the time when boats were lovingly handcrafted from wood). Boats run
betweenIsegranandGamlebyen orthemoderncentre(Nkr6).Byroadoronfoot,accessis
from Rv108, about 600m south of Fredrikstad city centre.
Hvalfanger (Whaling) Museum
MUSEUM
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(Tolbodgaten; admission Nkr10; noon-4pm Wed-Sun
Jun, Sat & Sun Aug-Sep)
This small whaling museum is run by proud old men only too
keen to show you around the old photos, the formidable whaling guns once used in the
Antarctic, and the even more formidable penis of a blue whale. No English is spoken and
all labels are in Norwegian.
Kongsten Festning
FORT
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On what was once called 'Gallows Hill' stands the flower-fes-
tooned Kongsten Festning (Kongsten Fort). Dating from 1685, it once served as a lookout
and warning post for the troops at nearby Gamlebyen. Although it can get overrun on sum-
mer weekends, this otherwise lonely and appealingly unkempt spot is a fun place at which
you can scramble around the turrets, embankments, walls and stockade, or just sit in the
sun and soak up the quiet. The silence is occasionally broken on summer evenings when
the grounds host concerts. It's a 10-minute walk southeast of the Gamlebyen drawbridge
(turn off Torsnesveien at Fredrikstad Motell & Camping).
Festivals & Events
Glomma Festival
CONCERTS, FOOD
