Suffrage Anniversary 1913-2013

On March 8, 2013 The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology marked the centenary of women's suffrage by opening an exhibition about women's rights activist Katti Anker Møller (1868-1945). The exhibition ran until 2013.

Politicization of women's roles

The exhibition "It Didn't Help Us Get the Right to Vote. Katti Anker Møller and the Politicization of Motherhood" shows how Møller worked to bring motherhood into the public eye and in this way expanded the boundaries of politics. The starting point for the exhibition is the socio-political "Maternity Home Exhibition", which Møller produced and showed in a number of Norwegian cities in 1916 and 1917.

Knut Hamsun, Children's Culture and Møller's Project

From the almost century-old exhibition, 383 objects, some photographs and an extensive archive have been preserved. The exhibition seeks to get closer to Møller's project through a selection of this material. The museum exhibits, among other things, letters from Knut Hamsun, beautiful children's clothes, toys, organic models, alcohol preparations, caricatures, photographs of famous men and women of the time as children and statistics on child mortality.

The limits of politics

The goal is to provide nuanced insight into the context and political thinking in which the "Maternity Home Exhibition" was created and to provide new understanding of current issues related to the boundaries of politics.

The exhibition opens on Women's Day

For the first time The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology celebrates International Women's Day. What could be better than using this very day to reflect on political rights, who and what belongs in the political community, and how the boundaries between public affairs and the private sphere have changed over time? These are questions the exhibition discusses and invites you to delve further into.