The exposition of the Museum "Kon-Tiki" and "Ra" is associated with ethnographic research and nautical achievements of one of the outstanding Norwegian travelers Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002). He set out to refute with a bold experiment the assertions that in ancient times, before Columbus, people could not cross the Pacific Ocean. Many facts pointed to the success of such voyages long before the official discovery of America, although they did not receive general fame. The journey of Heyerdahl and his companions was made in 1947, the duration of the voyage from Peru to the Tuamotu archipelago was 101 days. These were the years when the World was still in a good state after the end of the most bloody and destructive war in the history of Mankind.
The journey took place in favorable conditions, which will not always be - Heyerdahl's last ship, the Tigris, had to be burned as a protest off the coast of Somalia without completing the intended route.
But so far, everything was going great and the Kon-Tiki crew enjoyed close contact with the Great Ocean and its inhabitants in the silence of a leisurely sail on a raft made of ultra-light balsa tree trunks. As a result of the voyage, a book was written and published in a 50-million edition, and a film was made that was awarded an Oscar. In the museum, the virtual player of the unforgettable impressive melody "Kon-Tiki" performed by "The Shadows" involuntarily turned on in the memory.
On his second voyage, Heyerdahl decided to test the possibility of sailing across the Atlantic on a papyrus ship.
Created from an unusual material, the Ra ship under the UN flag with an international crew set off from Morocco in 1969, but the product built by craftsmen from the African Lake Chad was not buoyant enough to reach Barbados, scheduled as the final destination of the voyage. The following year, the attempt was repeated on the reed ship "Ra-2", built this time by the Indians from Lake Titicaca. The route from Morocco to Barbados was successfully completed in 57 days, travelers were followed during the voyage all over the world.
A raft and a reed boat now adorn the museum in Oslo, which also reflects Heyerdahl's research in Polynesia, on Easter Island and other places. But his last ship, the Tigris, is not in the museum. Tensions increased in the World, piracy revived, wars resumed, Heyerdahl's crew failed to complete the route through the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.
On April 3.1978, an international crew set fire to their reed boat in protest after Somalia, at war with Ethiopia, prevented a UN-flagged expedition from entering the Persian Gulf.
The journey took place in favorable conditions, which will not always be - Heyerdahl's last ship, the Tigris, had to be burned as a protest off the coast of Somalia without completing the intended route.
But so far, everything was going great and the Kon-Tiki crew enjoyed close contact with the Great Ocean and its inhabitants in the silence of a leisurely sail on a raft made of ultra-light balsa tree trunks. As a result of the voyage, a book was written and published in a 50-million edition, and a film was made that was awarded an Oscar. In the museum, the virtual player of the unforgettable impressive melody "Kon-Tiki" performed by "The Shadows" involuntarily turned on in the memory.
On his second voyage, Heyerdahl decided to test the possibility of sailing across the Atlantic on a papyrus ship.
Created from an unusual material, the Ra ship under the UN flag with an international crew set off from Morocco in 1969, but the product built by craftsmen from the African Lake Chad was not buoyant enough to reach Barbados, scheduled as the final destination of the voyage. The following year, the attempt was repeated on the reed ship "Ra-2", built this time by the Indians from Lake Titicaca. The route from Morocco to Barbados was successfully completed in 57 days, travelers were followed during the voyage all over the world.
A raft and a reed boat now adorn the museum in Oslo, which also reflects Heyerdahl's research in Polynesia, on Easter Island and other places. But his last ship, the Tigris, is not in the museum. Tensions increased in the World, piracy revived, wars resumed, Heyerdahl's crew failed to complete the route through the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.
On April 3.1978, an international crew set fire to their reed boat in protest after Somalia, at war with Ethiopia, prevented a UN-flagged expedition from entering the Persian Gulf.
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