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2020

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 upper secondary schools Hellerud, Hersleb and Persbråten will have their own Talent Centres for science under the auspices of Oslo Science Centre . High-achieving upper secondary school students and lower secondary school students from adjacent lower secondary schools will receive high-level training in science. The three speech centres are funded by the DNB Savings Bank Foundation and established in collaboration with the Municipality of Oslo and the Norwegian Agency for Education and Training.

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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 electric 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 , together with other Norwegian science centres, opens Kodekraft , a free educational program for Oslo students. Science fun 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 will open in 2021. This renews large parts of the National Medical Museum's exhibition offerings .

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    We are demolishing the entire 4th floor of the museum to build the world's coolest new ICT exhibition with groundbreaking visitor experiences, which will open in November 2021. Snøhetta is responsible for the 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 a whopping 6,000 people, exhibition openings for Klima 2+ and La Ville d'Orléans, one-on-one 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 mark the 150th anniversary of La Ville d'Orléans' flight from Paris to Seljord in November 1870, and the first air flight in Norway, by renewing the exhibition of the balloon basket in the communications hall.