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Conference Dinner at Munkholmen tuesday 15. May.

Tuesday evening there will be dinner at Munkholmen Monastry, which lies in the Trondheim Harbour 1 mile off the city.

The price (NOK 370) includes shrimp buffet, one glass of wine / beer, coffee and transport.  Dessert and wine is available for purchase.

The old monastry (which also has also been a fortress) is 5-10 minutes by boat from the city centre, and there will be information on boat arrangements at the workshop. Although the price is not included in the workshop, we hope you regard this as part of the workshop, and also a splendid opportunity to experience this "must-see".

About Munkholmen:

Beatiful Munkholmen dominates the harbour view, and is also central through Trondheims history. In the early years the island was used as place of execution, until the monastry was founded around 1100AD. The Monastry was a powerful unit both because of land ownership, and because of it's strategic location at the entrance to the city harbour. Another part of the story is that it was for it's big parties, and there are several entries in the city protocols of complaints about the noise at night.

The Monastry burned several times, the last time only a few years before Catholisism was banned in Norway in 1537, and it was actually Catholisisms last entrenchment. The following century after the Reformation it was used as herding land, until it was rebuilt as a fortress and from 1680 it was also one of Norways most notorious state jail. In 1893 it was disused, and apart from 1940-45 it has been used as a recreation place for Trondheim's citizens.  On hot, sunny days it was not unusual to swim out and spend the day, although nowadays people prefer the shuttleboat that runs daytime through the tourist season.