CLIMATE2+

klima2+ was opened by Minister of Climate and Environment Sveinung Rotevatn on June 24, 2020. The last day of the exhibition is December 19, 2021.

The event was also streamed due to the corona situation.

See the opening program!

The exhibition ended on 19 December 2021.

The exhibition klima2+ is intended to be a place to understand, discuss and do things together. Klima2+ also invites action through art, practical workshops and activism.

How long does a sweater last? How hot is a summer? How dangerous is a mosquito?

Watch the opening program with a mini-concert with ISÁK and follow the stream on Facebook!

Everything is connected to climate. Look closely and you will discover it.

In the commitment to the climate, there are many people and many thoughts and opinions, - there is enthusiasm, solidarity and dreams, but also anger, fear and great sadness.

Three things for insight
The museum has chosen three things from the museum's collections as inspiration to discuss different themes; an industrial loom, a supercomputer and malaria mosquitoes. With the themes of the clothing industry, weather forecasting and global health, we invite you to join in discussions about the greatest challenge of our time, the climate crisis. The things do not stand alone, they are surrounded by images, texts and other things that place them in a larger context, with several layers of narratives about the climate crisis. Look closely.

CRAY X-MP/24/ Photo: Håkon Bergseth/ The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

A fairytale forest

As in fairy tales, much is at stake, and the hero must go through many trials to reach his goal. In the "adventure about climate" it is you and I who have to be the heroes, and that every day.

Primeval forests with biological diversity are often called fairytale forests, or troll forests.

Our forest is not like other forests. The weather and mosquitoes may still be there, as thoughts you take with you inside. The clothes you might not think much about, you wear.

There are three things that open up the possibility of thinking about how everything is connected to climate.

Feel the atmosphere in the forest. Listen carefully.

Close-up of malaria mosquitoes in an exhibition

Malaria mosquito/ Photo: Håkon Bergseth/ The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Conservation workshop
What has made the path from wardrobe to trash can so far too short? A conservation workshop has been added to the exhibition. It is practical and useful for treating museum objects, but the workshop is also intended as a basic reminder to take care of things, use them for a long time, repair them and buy less.

Art
The collaboration with artists, who are engaged in the environment and climate, opens up to explore how artistic perspectives and sensitivity can mobilize our visitors in empathetic and unexpected ways. The exhibition project thus brings together scientific perspectives, insights from critical humanities and art.

Events
There will also be physical and digital events at the exhibition. Everyone can share their thoughts and knowledge. See more about the events!

Activities
The upcoming activity program is related to climate, and you can enjoy exciting activities at the museum all summer long. The poster includes everything from textile printing with natural dyes, a science show and a watermill workshop. Infection control is in place.

– The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's core areas are closely linked to the climate crisis, a crisis that does not have a single solution, but we are certain that technology is an important part of the solutions, says Frode Meinich. More than creating an exhibition with clear answers and many objects in display cases, we want Klima2+ to be a meeting place related to climate change. We aim to engage everyone from experts in various fields, schoolchildren, students – and the general public, he says enthusiastically.

When the museum was now going to create a climate exhibition for the second time, and the Paris Agreement from 2015 has in the meantime tightened the two-degree target to read "well below two degrees", Climate2+ a natural choice of name that the public will understand relates the exhibition directly to the global crisis, the discussions and, not least, the goal of saving our civilization as we know it.