Editing Stavanger (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Oljemuseum 2.jpg|thumb|[[Norwegian Petroleum Museum]] in 2005]]
The city has several museums and collections that are both local and national. The city's most visited museum is the [[Norwegian Petroleum Museum]], opened in 1998. In its 10 years of visitation records, from 1998 to 2008, almost 95,000 people visited the museum annually.

The city's oldest museum is [[Missjonmuseet]], established in 1864, located on the ground floor of the faculty building at MHS. The museum has about 5,000 exhibits consisting of several objects of ethnographic and historical interest from the various mission fields of study.

[[Stavanger Museum]], founded in 1877 and thus one of the oldest museums, includes several historic buildings and collections. Stavanger Museum consists of a total of eight buildings: Stavanger Museum Muségata 16, Stavanger Maritime Museum, the Norwegian Canning Museum, [[Ledaal]], Breidablikkveien museum, combined indretning, Norwegian Printing Museum and the Norwegian Children's Museum. In the main museum are now a cultural department, a zoological collection, and a library.

Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger is the largest museum in Stavanger, measured by number of employees. AmS is a state museum for the prehistoric sites in [[Rogaland]], and is part of the [[University of Stavanger]]. The museum also conducts extensive outreach activities, and has facilities fairly close to Stavanger Museum.

Rogaland Art Museum, located by a park, has paintings by Norwegian artist [[Edvard Munch]], [[Christian Krogh]], [[Eilif Peterssen]] and [[Harriet Backer]], and also has the largest collection of Lars Hertervigs work. Other artists of Rogaland represented here include [[Kitty Kielland]], Nicolai Ulfsten, [[Carl Sundt-Hansen]], [[Olaf Lange]] and [[Aage Storstein]].

[[Vestlandske School Museum]] (Western Norway School Museum), in Stavanger, is currently in the old 1920 Kvaleberg school building. Established in 1925, it is a museum of school history in [[Rogaland]].

By the bay lies the [[Norwegian Emigration Center]] on the west side and on the eastern side of the bay is [[Valbergtårnet]] with its Watchmen's Museum ({{lang|no|Vektermuseet}}).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Valbergtårnet |url=https://www.visitnorway.no/listings/valbergt%C3%A5rnet/258620/ |access-date=15 August 2023<!--wayback archive did not succeed--> |publisher=Innovation Norway}}</ref> [[Norwegian Telecom Museum]] has an office in Stavanger, at Løkkeveien.