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2021

Highlights of the year

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    The exhibition Life and death - the changing human being is opened by assistant director of health Espen Nakstad, and with the opening, large parts of the exhibition offer at the National Medical Museum are being renewed. Good school visit with good feedback.

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    The new museum message with the name Trust, things and time is launched by Minister of Culture Abid Raja directly at a digital press conference from our medicine exhibitions.

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    A nice nomination and final place is received for Oslo's best for children, a competition organized by Aftenposten about the best Oslo has to offer.

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    A major collaboration agreement with Norwegian industrial giant Equinor is signed, making the company the main collaboration partner for Oslo Science Centre and a collaboration partner for The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . Funds from the collaboration will enable the opening of a long-awaited new energy exhibition in 2023.

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    A close collaboration with the National Museum results in two temporary exhibitions: Gerhard Munthe - adventurous interiors and Sand in the machinery.

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    A digital ticket system is being introduced for buying tickets online. This has helped us in our work to further digitize parts of the customer journey at the museum.

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    A massive amount of work is being put into the work on the new ICT exhibition, I/O, which will open in 2022. The exhibition will offer ground-breaking visitor experiences and exhibition design from Snøhetta.

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    The government is launching an extra science lesson in primary school, and this is marked by a visit by Prime Minister Erna Solberg to the museum and the science centre.

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    We are becoming an Environmental Lighthouse, an important milestone in making our operation even more sustainable.

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    The Venneforeningen's formidable efforts and work with the restoration of the Industrial Model are crowned and celebrated with a train ride and many happy children during the annual Venneforeningen's day at the museum.

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    Oslo Science Centre hosts the annual science center hearing, where representatives of all 13 regional science centers as well as the Research Council are present.

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    During the period the museum was closed due to the pandemic, the schools were offered digital teaching. The feedback is so good that the offer will be continued in 2022.

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    We are celebrating two book releases with Hitler's builders, Fritz Todt and Albert Speer in Norway, by first conservator Ketil Gjølme Andersen, and the cartoon anthology Life and Death edited by conservator Phil Loring, where the six cartoonists Lucy Lyons, Anja Dahle Øverbye, Åshild Kanstad Johnsen, Steffen Kverneland, Øyvind Torseter and Tord Torpe based on central objects from the exhibition created visual narratives, called graphic medicine, of complex stories about illness, the body and treatment.

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    We are continuing the work with digitizing the museum and introducing a new accounting and finance system in the cloud, and Element's file and archive system for a faster and more efficient everyday life.

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    TENK Tech Camp is being organized for the fifth time for girls interested in technology.

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    About 3,000 photographs by the photo agency O. Væring have been repackaged, registered, digitized and published at the Digital museum. The collection was purchased in 2019 with support from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, and employees from several departments contribute to the work during the corona shutdown.