WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY PROGRAM
The year 2024 started with the opening of the exhibition Energy in the Climate Crisis , which has been a key framework for many of the museum's activities this year. The exhibition highlights how energy and use of resources have affected society and the environment, and it has inspired a number of dissemination programs aimed at visitors of all ages.
During the winter holiday program, we introduced activities that both related to the exhibition energy in the time of the climate crisis and engaged visitors in practical learning with the Solcellelab activity. Visitors were able to explore how solar cells work by creating a simple solar charger for mobile phone, a concrete example of renewable energy in practice. Women's Day was marked with a women's historical tour of energy in the time of the climate crisis, which emphasized women's contribution to energy history. An important contribution and collaboration was also a participation project with the environmental agents. The activity saved the fish , inspired by the classic playful shark coming , was created and has engaged many children to reflect on environmental protection and sea ecosystems.
In addition, we arranged a drawing cafe for visitors on nature and environmental commitment. Here it was the children who specific content and led the activity, which was carried out for the museum's visitors in March. In the tour Who owns nature? were questions such as the value of natural resources, eternity machines and nuclear power explored in a way that appealed to both children and adults.
The summer program had a rich and diverse content that associated with several exhibitions. Fixed program posts during the summer were energy tour, model railway and science show . Through several alternating programs, visitors could experience audio lab, mills and fans, save the bees, micro: bit orchestra, rocket workshop, solar cell charger, linen printing, automatic and 3-d print a thing. Several of the workshops were held out on the terrace, as in 2023.
In the fall, we also collaborated with Katta's figurine theater where we conducted the performance Skygtetunnel , which gave the children an experience of light and shade in an interactive hiking.
The autumn holiday program focused on robots, which proved to be very popular with visitors. In Open Robotlab, the children could learn about coding through play and interaction with the robots BIT: Bot, Sphero-Bolt and Bee-bot . Activity Lego Spike challenged visitors to program a robot of drag and release coding. In the tour the robots come, we took visitors on a journey through the history of robotics. Among the robots that were shown were also Paro, a robotment that demonstrated how care technology can contribute to better quality of life and emotional support for people with dementia. One of the days, the Robin (robotics and intelligent systems) research group was visiting with its humanoid robot Tiago.
In connection with the opening of the exhibition models and thumbnails, we offered the activities Build a city of cardboard, Dampveivsen's drum and inside out with anatomical models . Through this exhibition we have shown how scales and details in models can provide a deeper understanding of the world around us and how technology and design can be used to convey complex concepts in a visually engaging way. 
Children enjoy making mills and fans on the terrace during the summer workshop 2024. Photo: Gorm Gaare
EXTERNAL ARENA
In addition to the number of visitors to the museum, 14,664 visitors have been registered in external arenas.
The most important arenas in 2024:
- On 26-27 October it was time again for the Oslo Maker Festival at Deichman Bjørvika, co-organised by the Technical Museum. The festival had 20,000 visitors, which is a record number of visitors for a weekend at Deichman Bjørvika. Oslo Science Centre contributed with a reflex workshop, rocket launch, soap bubble show and redesign workshop and for the programming of the festival. The Oslo Maker Festival is organised by Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo Science Centre /Norsk The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and Norway Makers. The festival is financially supported by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB, Tekna and the Municipality of Oslo. In collaboration with Deichman and Norway Makers, the museum has organised the Maker Festival at Deichman Bjørvika, featuring radio-controlled cars, sand printers and soap bubbles. The festival was a success with 17,000 visitors.
- During the world's coolest day August, the museum contributed soap bubbles and activities where children could make their own reflex or program a sand printer. The event was conducted in collaboration with the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.
- The museum participated with the science show June at Blaker Skanse in connection with the festival Miniskansen 2024. There are blown soap bubbles on Children's Day on Strømsø June 2 June and we entertained children and parents with a science show at the 5-year club at Brynseng school on March 6.
- The museum participated with the science show June at Blaker Skanse in connection with the festival Miniskansen 2024. There are blown soap bubbles on Children's Day on Strømsø June 2 June and we entertained children and parents with a science show at the 5-year club at Brynseng school on March 6.
- Talent Center in Science has three branches at Haugenstua school, Persbråten high school and Hersleb high school. The Oslo East project is funded by the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. In collaboration with Ferd SE, The Talent Centre expanded its business by establishing and operating two branches in Oslo; Bjerke vgs and Bjørnholt vgs. The Talent Centre also had teaching in Kongsberg, Lillestrøm and Larvik.
- Teacher course : Oslo Science Centre has had 21 teacher courses outside the house with a total of about 990 participants. We have the course teachers, principals, social teachers, PPT and special educators in the school system.
- Critical Fashion Walk has explored what critical fashion can be by showing different ways in which fashion has been produced, presented, consumed and reflected upon, historically and in the present. Two city walks east of Akerselva on 17 and 31 October went from the Oslo Academy of the Arts via Birkelunden and the former Herkules factories to the Gunerius shopping centre and Salgshallen in Storgata. The project was initiated by curator Johanna Zanon in collaboration with the Oslo Academy of the Arts, independent artists and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , and supported by KORO.
- Marie's tour: Oslo Museum's industrial museum at Sagene organized every Thursday Marie's tour, which is a city walk with industrial history as a theme in the local area at Hønse-Lovisa's house and Beyerbrua. The museum's conservators held two walks in 2024.
- In the summer we had a week's stand with electric promo bike on Visit Oslo, where they showed fun experiments and met many tourists. The following week, the bike was used in several places in the city used with a skeleton in the cash register.
Many wonderful bubbles have been created as here at Oslo Creator Festival. Photo: Joachim Solum
In 2024, the school visit was 45 705 at the museum and 4,482 in arenas outside the museum. In total, the school visit ended up at 50 187, which was 3,352 more than in 2023. The museum had the best school visit since 2016 in 2024. The kindergarten visit ended at 7,561, which was a decrease of 671 from 2023. A total of 39,782 pupils, Teachers and kindergarten, 2,56.
The school offer extends over several subjects, such as science, social sciences, arts and crafts, math, and health sciences. The new offers in 2024 were the melting point (Energi, 5-7., 8-10. Step), assignment (body and health, 5-7. Step), Super: Bit Tegnerobot (programming, 6th step), self-driving car (KI, 8-10. Step, VGS), Heritage and Genetics (Biology, 10. Steps, VGs). In addition, soldering of dicocule (technology, 5-7., 8-10. Step) was reintroduced in the program. Of the new offers, it was super: Bit Tegnerobot that had the most orders. The museum also organized this year, research square for students in collaboration with UiO. 450 pupils with teachers, from 2nd stage to vgs, visited the museum that day.
The industrial revolution was the most ordered offer in 2024, which has had a good increase from 2023. As in previous years, the science show has been popular in the museum's high season for school visits, which is the last four weeks before the school summer vacation. The most popular theme was programming, which was divided into 10 different learning services. Especially Super: Bit - Intro for programming has had good visits. Astronomy was also a popular topic. Astroamfi, which was reintroduced in the fall of 2023, has become one of the best visited offers.
The kindergarten learning program was exploring electricity, the dragon Berta mystery and contagious . The latter was taken by the program again due to resource challenges. The dragon Berta was the offer with the most orders, 839 children participated in total. The museum has had a decline from kindergartens, a total of 1115 children participated in a learning offer, a decline of 423 from 2023.
The subscription scheme for Nordre Aker continued in 2024. The scheme gives the district's schools and kindergartens free entrance throughout the year. 4849 Pupils and teachers took advantage of the offer, a decline of 835 from 2023. 2 103 kindergarten children with teachers visited the museum in 2024 via the scheme, an increase of 7 from last year.
Photo: Lars Opstad
Events
The event program will actualize the museum's exhibitions, research, collections and archives. During 2024, the following events were conducted, many in collaboration with others.
Exhibition openings
On January 25, the museum celebrated the opening of the new permanent exhibition ENERGY in the Time of the Climate Crisis . Sámi Parliament President Silje Karine Muotka presided over the ceremonial opening. Moutka also participated in a panel discussion with Professor Dag O. Hessen and UNICEF Ambassador Penelope Lea. The exhibition's two curators, Senior Curator Ketil Gjølme Andersen and Exhibition Educator Jan Alfred Andersson, also contributed from the stage, as well as head of the collection group at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology Thale Sørlie and climate expert Annam Chaudhry. Director Frode Meinich's entrance went smoothly with contributions from the Norwegian Model and Steam Association and the guests also had a chance to play during the opening party. Developed in collaboration with Stereo productions. 
The Sámi Parliament President opened the exhibition ENERGY in the Time of the Climate Crisis at the end of February. Photo: Håkon Bergseth
On November 23, we opened the exhibition models and thumbnails with speeches by director Frode Meinich and project manager Frode Weium. The youngsters Kirsti Eidhammer Kopperud and Emre Evensen Sørlie cut the cord and paid tribute to the gigantic dollhouse in the exhibition with poetry performance. Afterwards it was free in the exhibition and a large activity program, including a fast -paced Bilrace at the Damstredet Racing/ Asker Bilbane. The model railway was run by knowledgeable staff, a miniature city was built in cardboard, the boilers were fired up on steam wires in miniature and the tour inside out gave those who wanted a closer look at the medical part of the exhibition.
People on the opening of models and thumbnails ! Photo: Jill Bottolfsen
LATE
The museum organized the evening format late for people over 18 years four times in 2024. The program included presentations, demonstrations, workshops, guided tours, museum quiz, games, mini-concert, film screening, DJ sets, soap bubbles and Abel's bar, and it also included open meetings and conversations on technology and politics. The zone for experimental informatics from the Department of Informatics was a regular feature with the humanoid robot Tiago and the industrial robot Universal Robots Ur5. Thematically, late with the exhibitions I/O and energy in the time of the climate crisis , as well as Halloween.
Guests during the Halloween celebration at the museum. Photo: Jill Bottolfsen
Calls in I/O
In collaboration with two research projects at the UiO, the museum developed a new conversation format for research dissemination. In late February, visitors were invited to talks about their experiences of an increasingly digitized everyday life together with researchers from the Private Lives and Digitox , UiO projects.
Professor Marianne Lien, project manager for Private Lives , initiated Gullestad's ethnographic classic Kitchen-Table Society who had named the format. The conversations took place at staged kitchen tables in the museum's exhibition and took questions from the research as their starting point. The goal was to create an intimate mood and promote an equal exchange of experiences between the participants. The talks also became part of the research projects. Following the conversations, a related stage conversation between reindeer husbandry owner Kate Johanne Utsi, and Professor Marianne Lien on how digital technology affects the interaction between humans and animals.
Debates and conversations to energy in the time of climate crisis
In March, oil and climate policy was the theme of the new conversation format Kitchen-Table Society in late. Here, participants shared stories and reflections on, among other things, the Norwegian Oil Fund's investments and ownership in global companies and how oil is produced in media and literature.
Following the talks followed a stage conversation between Bård Lahn, a researcher at the TIK Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo, and Ketil G. Andersen, curator of the newly opened exhibition Energy in the Climate Crisis , on how the new energy exhibition made with the climate crisis as a starting point, the stories about Norwegian fossil production in the museum change.
In late June, the theme was nuclear power, and at the top of the program was a debate about nuclear power can play a role in the solution to the nature and climate crisis . The panel consisted of Sunniva Siem, professor of nuclear physics and head of the Nuclear Center at UiO, Jonas Kristiansen Hølvand, a researcher in energy technology at NTNU, Lars Borgersrud, author of when Norway would become nuclear power, Andreas Sjalg Unneland, Storting representative for SV, Green Youth, and the head of the Standal, and the head of the Board. dir. Renewable Norway . The debate was led by Lars Ursin from the Norwegian Climate Foundation. Before the debate, the art documentary film Burial shown and Nils Bøhmer from the Norwegian Nuclear Decomposition told about Norwegian research reactors. The evening ended with nuclear power stories -a tour of Norway's nuclear power history, from heavy water to the basement reactor and today's debate, led by the energy exhibition other curator, Jan Alfred Andersson.
In September, a panel conversation on artificial intelligence (KI) and climate was conducted, which illuminated resource scarcity and climate and environmental costs of using KI, as well as what role KI can play to solve the climate crisis. Participants in the panel were Signe Riemer-Sørensen, research leader at SINTEF, Gro Sandkjær Hanssen, researcher at NIBR and professor of urban and regional planning at NMBU, Trym Ae Lindell, PhD candidate in AI at OsloMet, and Birgit Oline Kjerstad from the SV, the Municipal and Public Administration Committee. The chair was Jan Alfred Andersson.
Nuclear power debate at the museum. Photo: Jill Bottolfsen
Halloween
The last late night of October 31, the museum was darkened on the occasion of Halloween. The museum showed spirit photographs from the museum's photo archives, horror film classics and a self -playing piano. Visitors got to experience claustrophobia in Little Klaus , our safety maze, as well as VR altitude. Soap bubbles were urged in the dark, and the zone caused the hair to get up with its van der Graaff generator. One of our curators shared the story behind a human skeleton in the collection. We named the best Halloween attire, while DJ Pavel Plastic played Horror Disco. The evening ended with a quiz on spiritism, mysteries and scary inventions and science shows.
Girls and technology
Think Tech Camp was held at the museum for the eighth time 8. And August 9, 2024. It is a free summer camp for 150 girls aged 13-18 organized by thinking-the Tech network for women.
Girl Tech Fest was held at the Museum for the fourth year in a row October 22.150 Girls from 5th steps participated in workshops who gave tastes on how to join in and shape the technology of the future.
Digitization and Equality Minister Karianne Oldernes Tung and program manager Selma Ibrahim visited the event. Girl Tech Fest is a collaboration between the National Center for Science Recruitment, ICT Norway, the Oda network, think-the Tech network for women, and the museum.
Aid Technology
During the event Talk to Your Eyes, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology invited visitors to explore and try assistive technology such as eye control, switch control and graphic character support. See section Diversity and inclusion.
Research Days 2024
In collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Psychology, the Pharmaceutical Institute and the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Oslo, we conducted research square on 20-21 for the third time. September. 1600 people, including 600 school students visited the square at the museum. They met 12 research environments from UiO who engaged with demonstrations, simulations and creative experiments.
As part of the Research Days, we also collaborated with the Center for Digital Life (NTNU, UiO, UiB, SINTEF, OUS, NBMU and UiT) A lecture by system biologist Eirini Tsirvouli on research on digital twins and use of data models to treat patients.
Dentists Morten Hanstad and Gry Steinsvoll Prøsch from the Faculty of Dentistry during the Research Square in September. Photo: Jill Bottolfsen
Late Night Thursday
During the year, the museum was opened until 10 p.m. 19 on Thursdays, with the exception of the summer holidays and Christmas. In our creation workshops, we have offered visitors to try KI-based drawing tools as well as programmers sand printers and robots. In addition, we have had classic analogue table games and LEGO building tables as social activities, and at the end of the year the Damstredet Racing/ Asker Bilbane and the museum itself invited to Bilrace in the newly opened exhibition models and thumbnails .
On April 25, Hege Duckert gave the lecture to decide on the life of Katti Anker Møller's struggle for all women's right to birth aid, birth control and abortion. At the same time, the museum presented the maternity home exhibition in the exhibition Life and Death , the Medical Museum.
Technology Thursday
Technology Thursday offers a series of lectures that provide current insights and historical views of technology development and its importance in work and everyday life. The topics include infrastructure, industry, research, medicine and health, natural sciences and engineering. The lecture series is a collaboration between The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , the Technology History Group at Tekna, NITO – Oslo branch and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's Friends Association. This year's nine lectures were:
Reindeer husbandry and drones - a revolution? at Marianne Lien, professor of social anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, UiO.
Wind power at sea - past, present, future at Simen Moxnes, civil engineer, new energy systems in Equinor.
The history of the railway signals - a safe journey from flag to electronics v Ed Olav Kallerud, civil engineer in technical cybernetics and signal advisor in Ramboll.
The caravel and the mackers at Hans Arnegard, aviation mechanic and pilot.
Tekna 150 years at Pål Nygaard, historian and associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School.
From the industrial city Christiania to Avindustrialized Oslo by Dag Andreassen, historian and conservator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .
Remote Towers - Remote controlled towers in Linda Salte, Technical Lead and Anne Birgitte Sætrum, Operational Lead, Avinor Remote Towers program.
On the way to the new Viking Museum at David Hauer, responsible conservator for the SGO project at the Cultural History Museum.
Models and thumbnails at Frode Weium, department head and project manager for the exhibition, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .