THE QUEEN IN OSLO

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27695, 27 June 1955, Page 11

THE QUEEN IN OSLO

Visit To Folk Museum (Rec. 9 p-m.) OSLO, June 25. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh began a round of sightseeing in Oslo today with a visit in brilliant sunshine to the Folk Museum, an open-air exhibition of old Norwegian buildings. The Royal couple drove m a big open car to the Isthmus of Bygdoey. In the main courtyard of the museum, women and children in colourful national costumes lined the paths. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Harold Macmillan, accompanied the Queen’s suite. King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav. and Prince Harald went with the Royal visitors on a tour of the museum’s exhibition. Queen Elizabeth smiled as she watched Norwegian children dancing in national costume. Afterwards, the two smallest dancers, a boy and girl aged seven, ran up to the Queen with doil replicas of themselves as presents for the Queen’s children. The Royal party drove to another museum to see three Viking ships preserved through many centuries by The highlight of the morning’s tour was a visit to the Kon-Tiki raft on which six Scandinavians drifted 5000 miles across the Pacific. Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon-Tiki leader, met the Queen and presented her with a 12inch scale model of the raft.

“It has beeji made especially for the Royal children,” he told the Queen. Tomorrow.- the Queen will attend a service at the English church of St. Edmund before lunching at Skaugum, the residence of Crown Prince Olav. The Queen and the Duke will sail for home in the Royal yacht, Britannia. after dinner on board tomorrow evening.