In the exhibition you can study a reconstructed mechanical workshop from the 1920s. The workshop received power from a steam engine, and the power was transmitted to the machines by belt drive.
The shipbuilding industry also contributed to the industrialization of Oslo and the rest of the country. Two large shipyards were established in Oslo harbor in 1841 and 1854, Nylands Verksted and Akers Mekaniske Verksted.
From around 1900 and beyond in the 20th century, large power-intensive industries were built in remote valleys and by fjords, close to the sources of hydropower. The exhibition "About metals" presents the most important products from the power-intensive industry: iron, steel, silicon, ferroalloys and aluminium. The importance of metals and alloys in various historical eras is also a theme in the exhibition.
The Bessemer converter
The converter patented by Henry Bessemer in 1855 made it possible to produce high quality steel from pig iron. The exhibited converter was used at Strømmen Staal A/S.
The importance of the Bessemer method in the steel industry gradually declined. New processes that did not have the same restriction on the types of iron ore that could be used were developed. The Siemens-Martin process, which was developed in the 1860s, eventually became the most important process for the production of steel.
Vice by Halvor Thune
The vise, which is mounted on the workbench in the innermost part of the workshop, was made by Halvor Thune in 1847 as his masterpiece. Thune later became one of Oslo's leading industrial founders when he founded Thune's Mekaniske Verksted on Skøyen in 1852.
The industrial revolution in Norway
We offer customized tours of the exhibition for school classes. From the steam engine and loom to workplaces and living conditions, the story of the rise of the industrial revolution in Norway in the 19th century is told.
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