To guide your way

The first records of an organized pilot service on the Norwegian coast are found in King Magnus Lagabøters (“The Lawgivers”) national law from 1276. Later, the Danish-Norwegian legislation, also had paragraphs regulating the pilot-service.

The right to serve as a pilot was granted by the king by a letter of privilege, but it was not until 1720 that the pilot service was organized as a public service on a national level. The Royal Act signed by King Frederik IV on April 29th 1720, marks the starting point of a publicly organized pilot-service, and thereby, indirectly, the establishment of today’s Directorate of Coastal Affairs, or Kystverket, as we know it today.

This exhibition presents five different pilots from different times and different places in Norway. They give us short glimpses of how working conditions have changed and improved through history, ending with a question of how the pilot-service will develop in the future.

The exhibition is produced by Kystverkmusea.

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