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Bergen tickets
Ticket and booking rules for Bergen: timed entries, closing days and official links, checked September 2026.
Checked September 2026 against official sources
Bergen
Bookings and opening rules
Follow the official link before you buy. Full walking days: Bergen itinerary.
Fløibanen and Ulriken: hours and fares
- Fløibanen runs from 07:30 to 24:00 on weekdays and from 08:00 to 24:00 at weekends and public holidays, with departures every 10 to 15 minutes and as often as every 5 minutes when busy; before 10:00 and after 19:00 it runs on the hour and half hour. The last departure from both the city station and Fløyen is at midnight. The busiest period is 10:00 to 14:00, when the operator warns of a 15 to 20 minute wait.Source: Fløibanen — Opening hours · checked Sep 2026
- From 1 April to 30 September a Fløibanen return from the city centre to Fløyen costs 200 NOK for adults bought through the app, website or a ticket machine and 220 NOK otherwise, with children aged 4 to 15 at 100 or 120 NOK; from 1 October to 31 March the return is 145 NOK for adults, 70 for children and 100 for seniors. Children under 4 travel free with an adult, and senior tickets are not sold between 1 April and 30 September.Source: Fløibanen — Prices and ticket types · checked Sep 2026
- The Ulriken cable car and its café run daily 09:00 to 23:00 from April to September; from October to March they are closed on Mondays, open 09:00 to 19:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday and Sunday, and 09:00 to 23:00 from Thursday to Saturday. A return costs 435 NOK for adults, 180 for children aged 4 to 16 and 1,050 for a family of two adults and up to three children, and the Ulriken Express bus from Torgallmenningen 1A runs about every 30 minutes between 09:00 and 18:30. The whole cableway is closed for the duration of January 2027 for its five-year maintenance.Source: Ulriken643 — Opening hours and prices · checked Sep 2026
Kode museums and the Grieg house
- The four Kode art museums are open Tuesday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00 and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 16:00 between 19 May and 14 September, and Wednesday to Friday 11:00 to 18:00 with Saturday and Sunday 11:00 to 16:00 between 15 September and 18 May. They close on 1 January, 1 May, 17 May, 24 and 25 December and 31 December. One 200 NOK ticket gives same-day entry to all four, visitors under 18 are free, and the Bergen Card gives free admission from October to April and a 25 per cent discount from May to September.Source: Kode — Opening hours and info · checked Sep 2026
- Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg's villa, is open 2 May to 13 September, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 16:00, with the garden, museum and café open and outdoor guided tours and daily concerts from 9 June; the villa itself is closed for renovation. From 14 September to 1 May the park is open at all times and the museum and café only on days with events or concerts. The same 200 NOK Kode ticket applies, an entrance ticket is needed even for the garden during opening hours, and a free audio guide is available at reception.Source: Kode — Troldhaugen · checked Sep 2026
- Two of Kode's other composer homes are affected in 2026. Lysøen, Ole Bull's villa on its island, is closed for refurbishing and there is no museum boat from Buena to the island this year, though the island itself can be reached by private boat. Siljøstøl is open on Sundays 10:00 to 16:00 between 14 June and 13 September and otherwise only during selected concerts, with its grounds open all year.Source: Kode — Lysøen and Siljøstøl · checked Sep 2026
Bergenhus and the city museums
- Håkon's Hall is open daily 10:00 to 16:00 from 2 January to 20 December, with closures on scattered dates for events, and costs 120 NOK for adults, 60 for students, free for under-18s and free with the Bergen Card. The Rosenkrantz Tower is open daily 10:00 to 16:00 from 2 January to 30 June and again from 16 September to 20 December, and 10:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday with weekends 10:00 to 16:00 from 1 July to 15 September; it costs 170 NOK for adults and 85 for students, children under 18 are free, and it is not included in the Bergen Card. The tower opens on the dates the hall is closed, except public holidays.Source: Bymuseet i Bergen — Håkon's Hall and the Rosenkrantz Tower · checked Sep 2026
- Bryggens Museum is open daily 10:00 to 17:00 from 12 January to 30 December and closed on 17 May, 23 to 26 December and 31 December. Adults pay 170 NOK, students 85, children under 18 are free, the Bergen Card gives a 50 per cent discount and groups of 15 or more get 20 per cent off.Source: Bymuseet i Bergen — Bryggens Museum · checked Sep 2026
- The Old Bergen open-air museum opens for the season from 20 May to 13 September, daily 10:00 to 16:00, at 170 NOK for adults; the museum recommends at least an hour and says two to three is normal. Its English park and the shore around it are open to everyone all year without a ticket.Source: Bymuseet i Bergen — Old Bergen Museum · checked Sep 2026
On the day
What to watch at each stop
University Museum of Bergen
- Open Tuesday to Sunday, roughly 10:00 to 16:00 with longer summer hours, with one ticket covering both buildings and the botanical garden free; closed on Mondays
Old Bergen Museum
- The houses are open daily 10:00 to 16:00 from 20 May to 13 September and cost 170 NOK for adults; allow two hours; the park and the waterfront are open year-round without a ticket
Osterfjord and Mostraumen
- Boats leave from Zachariasbryggen beside the fish market, usually once or twice a day between spring and autumn and less often in winter; three hours, book online in summer, and dress warmer than the town requires
Questions
Quick answers
Is the Bergen Card worth it?
It depends almost entirely on how many museums you intend to enter. It gives free travel on the light rail and city buses, free entry to Håkon's Hall and a long list of other museums, half price at Bryggens Museum, free Kode entry from October to April and 25 per cent off from May to September, and 10 per cent off Ulriken tickets. It does not cover the Rosenkrantz Tower. If your plan is three or four museums plus transport it pays; if you are mostly walking and looking at Bryggen and the fjord, it does not.
Do you need a car in Bergen?
No, and it is a liability in the centre, where parking is expensive and much of the old town is closed to traffic. The Bybanen light rail runs from the centre south past Fantoft and Hop to the airport, and it reaches most of what is outside walking distance, including Troldhaugen with a walk at the end. Buses cover the rest, and single tickets run from about 51 NOK for one zone. A car only makes sense if you are driving on to the fjords afterwards.
The days these rules belong to
3 days in Bergen
Bergen is a city of about 290,000 on the west coast of Norway, built on a narrow shelf between a deep harbour and seven mountains, and it rains here on roughly 230 days a year, which the city has long since decided to be proud of. It was founded around 1070, was the country's capital for most of the thirteenth century, and from 1360 housed one of the four overseas trading posts of the Hanseatic League, whose German merchants controlled the export of dried cod from the Arctic and lived in the wooden tenements of Bryggen under their own law until the eighteenth century. That wharf is a UNESCO site and the anchor of any visit. Beyond it the city is a compact centre of wooden lanes, two funicular and cable railways into the mountains above, one of the largest art collections in Scandinavia, and the quay from which the fjord boats and the coastal steamer leave. The airport is 12 km south with a light rail line straight into town.
