Stavanger, before it became an oil city, was once the hub of sardine canning factories. In an old factory building is a small museum about canning. It actually is quite interesting. I was there when they were having fieldtrip of school children. I stood back and got the basic idea of what they were telling the kids. The picture to the left is of a drying rack of sardines. (the sardines are rubber.) Below, I am holding a rubber sardine. They told the kids how to pack them in cans and explained that they had to do so many cans in a time period. Then they let them pretend to be factory workers and timed them. It was a hoot to watch! The factory workers had to cut off the head of the fish with scissors until someone invented a machine to do it.
Rubber Sardines to the right and below.
I missed the part where they showed the kids how to make cans from tin sheets. I don't think they let the kids do this as there are warning signs next to the press.
Canning sardines - one job I am glad I never had to do!
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