Highlights of the year
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We finally get our own, absolutely fantastic, model railway ! With Jernbanen's music band playing, conductor uniforms, speeches, poems, buns and juice, an audience record was set on the opening weekend with 4,800 happy visitors. The Venneforeningen has contributed with funding.
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The exhibition Regjeringskvartalet is opened by Oslo's mayor Marianne Borgen, a photo exhibition about a disputed quarter. The exhibition opens in the middle of the heated demolition debate, and shows fantastic photographs from Teigen's photo studio.
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This year's largest exhibition initiative Klima 2+ is opened by Climate and Environmental Protection Minister Sveinung Rotevatn, and addresses how everything around us is connected to climate. The exhibition is a place where the museum's visitors get involved in one of the most important topics of our time – the climate crisis.
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The secondary schools Hellerud, Hersleb and Persbråten will have their own Talent Centers for science under the auspices of Oslo Science Centre . High-achieving upper secondary students and secondary school students from neighboring secondary schools receive training in science at a high level. The three speech centers are financed by Sparebankstiftelsen DNB and established in collaboration with Oslo municipality and the Norwegian Education Agency.
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water wheel in the entrance area with financial funds from the friends' association The water wheel is now fully operational, with water and all.
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The Friends' Association also allocates money for the restoration of Birkeland Eyde's arc furnace, which meets the public outside the museum, and they have restored the beautiful industrial model, which is a miniature model of an ideal industrial society in 1954, in collaboration with the museum.
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A fully digital TENK Tech Camp is being held for the 4th year in a row at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . Our goal is to get more girls involved in technology!
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Oslo Science Centre opens together with other Norwegian science centers Kodekraft , a free teaching program for Oslo students. Science enjoyment through practical programming in collaboration with Equinor.
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A massive amount of work is being put into the new permanent health and medicine exhibition Life and Death, which opens in 2021. This renews large parts of the National Medical Museum's exhibition offer .
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We are demolishing the entire 4th floor of the museum to build the world's crudest new ICT exhibition with ground-breaking visitor experiences, which will open in November 2021. Snøhetta is responsible for exhibition design.
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Breakthrough for digital communication at the museum with a science show, which was seen and liked by almost 11,000 people, a concert with Captain Credible, a tour of the Caravelle, seen and liked by as many as 6,000 people, exhibition openings for Klima 2+ and La Ville d'Orléans, en- to-a classroom teaching and much, much more…
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We are sending 4.7 tonnes on 22 pallets of film and video to the National Library in Mo i Rana, where the material will be digitalised, secured and preserved.
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We are marking 150 years since La Ville d'Orléans flew from Paris to Seljord in November 1870, and the first flight took place in Norway, by renewing the exhibition of the balloon curve in the communications hall.