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Annual report 2018

Preface

The best museum experience

For over 100 years, we have been a museum for everyone. We are responsible stewards of our cultural heritage for industry, science, technology and medicine. Our vision is to be Norway's most visible, bold and dialogue-oriented museum. It is a vision to be both proud of and humbled by. There is no doubt that it is tough and demanding to be a leader in the museum industry in Norway, and we have set a clear compass course into the future.

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Museum director Frode Meinich in the Caravel Finn Viking, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's largest object. You can see it in the transport hall, in the museum's transport exhibition. Photo: Thomas Fjærtoft

2018

Highlights of the year

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    Transfer of the Telemuseet's valuable collections with the Ministry of Transport as a good supporter. The collection has over 20,000 objects and 480,000 photographs.

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    LEGO LOVE. The annual LEGO festival brings together enthusiasts big and small for a three-week building party with over 1,000 kilos of LEGO bricks.

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    We are opening the FOLK exhibition, a ground-breaking exhibition about the consequences scientific racism has had and continues to have for society and individuals.

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    Transfer of NRK's ​​technical-historical collection of radio and television equipment of over 1,300 items

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Photo: Thomas Fjærtoft

2018

Collaboration partners and contributors

The museum is mainly financed through contributions from the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Health and Care, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Education, of which the Ministry of Culture is the most important. In 2018, total fixed contributions from the four ministries amounted to NOK 50,820,000. In addition, a number of gifts and grants are received from private and public contributors.

  • Atea together with Apple has given support to TeknoLab creative workshop.
  • 3DNet has given support to the TeknoLab creative workshop.
  • Fritt Ord supported the FOLK exhibition and the event in the conversation series Medical rooms, gender diversity and the power of diagnosis at the Medical Museum.
  • Østfold University College/Academy for the Performing Arts contributes funding to collaboration on the exhibition Blind spot.
  • From the Cultural Council, the museum has received support for the project The method of things, and for the preparation of a risk and vulnerability analysis for the museum.
  • NITO, Tekna, the friends association and the museum collaborate on monthly technology history lectures.
  • The Research Council of Norway has provided research funds for the FOLK exhibition and the project From racial typology to DNA sequencing and the conference To Research & Exhibit Human Biological Diversity and provided event support for Researcher's Night.
  • Norid has provided support for a new permanent ICT exhibition and the dissemination project How to exhibit the Internet?
  • NRK has given support to the work with the takeover of NRK's ​​technical-historical artefact collection.
  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB has deposited a large collection of photographs, Dextra Photo, at the museum and for several years has provided operating support for the work of preserving and disseminating the collection. The foundation has also contributed support to the TeknoLab creative workshop and to the national project the Creative School, in which the science center is one of the actors.
  • Statnett has contributed to the financing of Oslo Science Centre .
  • Tekna has given support to TeknoLab creative workshop.
  • The Norwegian Directorate of Education has provided support for the initiative on The Talent Centre and The Technological School Bag at Oslo Science Centre and the teachers' conference Skaperverksted and programming in schools.
  • VIRKE supported study trips via its Organizational Development Programme, for a PhD project at the School of Museum Studies, Leicester University.

A selection of other partners

Archive Day, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Bitraf, Brikkelauget, Deichmanske library at the Stovner and Bjerke branches, as well as the main library, Design and Architecture Norway, European Route of Industrial Heritage, Research Council, FRI - the association for gender and sexuality diversity, ICOM, Inspiria, Kulturvernforbundet, Kahoot, Klimafestivalen § 112, Kodeklubben Oslo, Kulturvernforbundet, Kodegenet Makerspace, Kroloftet, Kikora AS, Lær Kidsa Koding, MakeADrone, Norway Makers, NTNU, Norwegian Astronautical Association, Norwegian Space Center, Norwegian Chemical Society, National Library, Nordic Institute for Studies of innovation, research and education, Nordnorsk Science Centre, National Center for Science Recruitment, Oslo Met, Oslo Museum, Oslo Municipality, University of Oslo at Museum for University and Science History (MUV), PancakeBot, Ringnes Breweries. Routes, Restarters, Redd Barna, Foundation UNI, STEAM Labs, School laboratory in chemistry at UiO, Sunbell, Tekniska museum Stockholm, TENK – Tech network for women, Trondheim Science Center, University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Young Entrepreneurship, Science Factory, Science Center Association , Vitenparken Ås, Østfoldmuseene, Open zone for experimental informatics at UiO.

The Association of Friends

The purpose of the Association of Friends of The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology is to contribute to the development of The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , and to be a forum for enthusiasts, companies and organizations with an interest in the museum's work and technical and medical history. In 2018, the association had 1,369 members, and 5 corporate members.

With roots going back to the museum's foundation in 1914, it works actively with technical environments in business to realize interesting projects. The association arranges, among other things, engaging excursions and together with Tekna and NITO Oslo and Akershus offer free monthly technology history lectures at the museum. Venneforeningens Dag, where adults and children are invited to the museum to experience, learn and be inspired, is organized twice a year. The members' magazine BULLETIN is published four times a year.  

In 2018, the Friends' Association transferred NOK 441,725 in contributions to the museum. The association, which is a member of the Association of Norwegian Museum Friends, has its own secretariat and is formally independent of The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .

Many of the association's 1,400 members and their families found their way to the museum to see Ekebergbanen in miniature on Venneforeningen's day in November.

Many of the association's 1,400 members and their families found their way to the museum to see Ekebergbanen in miniature on Venneforeningen's day in November. Photo: Thomas Fjærtoft

From Venneforeningen's day in November.

Committed association leader

- Technology is fascinating, and it drives social development. I am sure that knowledge of technological development in a historical context is of great importance for the future. We want to share this with everyone, especially with those who are growing up today, says Ragnar Skjærstad, leader of the Friends of The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology association.

Photo: Thomas Fjærtoft

Collaboration partners and contributors