Hanseatic Museum, Bergen

A museum at Bryggen on Bergen’s harbor, Norway, in one of the original wooden Hanseatic trading houses dating from the early eighteenth century. It documents the Hanseatic League’s Bergen Kontor, the German merchant office that controlled the dried-cod (stockfish) trade from roughly 1360 to 1754. Bryggen, the surviving Hanseatic wharf, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. The museum recreates merchant living and working quarters.