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2019

Highlights of the year

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    • The year's biggest exhibition venture The Moon landing 50 years - is a real audience success from Easter and throughout the year.
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    • The museum receives the prestigious museum award for best exhibition in the category large exhibitions 2018 from the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) for the exhibition PEOPLE – from racial types to DNA sequences.
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    • Snøhetta is signed as a collaboration partner for the development of exhibition design for the new ICT exhibition that opens in 2021.
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    • The Friends' Association allocates money for the restoration of the large water wheel at the entrance, the electric arc furnace in front of the museum's main entrance, the beautiful industrial model from 1954 and a large new model railway.
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    • TENK Tech Camp is being held for the 3rd year in a row at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . There are far too few girls interested in technology today, and we are doing something about that!
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    • Oslo Science Centre supplies programming knowledge to 1,600 pupils and teachers from Oslo under the banner of the national project The technological school bag .
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    • The exhibition BLIND SPOT opens in close collaboration with artist Karen Kipphoff at the Academy of Performing Arts at Østfold University College. The exhibition explores the relationship between what you see and what you perceive, through artistic installations, optical illusions and ophthalmic objects.
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    • In February, two of the communication department's staff are engaged to run workshop activities at the Abu Dhabi Science Festival.
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    • Together with the University of Oslo, we engage more than 550 participants when the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology gathers in Oslo 7–12. July.
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    • The restoration of Bergen Radio, the Rundemanen coastal radio station, is being completed. Rundemanen was Norway's first and most important long-range coastal radio station and essential in the development of commercial telecommunications.
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    • The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's science show opens Elvelangs 2019 at Frysja, together with Oslo's mayor, Marianne Borgen.
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    • Oslo Science Centre works together with the Natural Sciences Center (UiO) on the Maker School project and conducts the Oslo Maker Festival at Deichman Hovedbibliotek, as well as several mini-maker festivals at Deichman branches in Groruddalen.
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    • The government decides that The Talent Centre , will go from a pilot project to a permanent offer and ensure that children and young people with great learning potential in the sciences get a better learning offer.