Highlights of the year

We were voted Oslo's best experience for children by Aftenposten's readers when the newspaper tested the best Oslo has to offer.

Crown Prince Haakon opens I/O, the AI-powered telecommunications and computing exhibition, which is the largest exhibition effort since the museum moved to Kjelsås in 1986. A groundbreaking visitor experience with exhibition design by Snøhetta.

Together with Equinor, Oslo Science Centre 's main partner and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's partner, we arranged this summer's happening at the museum: an evening of music, coding and a concert with Hkeem for youth in Oslo.

For the sixth time, TENK Tech Camp is being held at the museum, a camp where we awaken the interest in technology in girls in middle school.

Mensa Norway's 2022 award goes to The Talent Centre for Science, led by Safina de Klerk, and her burning commitment since the centre's inception in 2016 to offering tailored education to students with great learning potential.

With our good partner the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), the traveling exhibition Balancing Art is one of the year's changing exhibitions. A timely exhibition about energy and natural resources and the art of balancing many considerations.

We start with evening hours, Nine to Nine, on Thursdays and arrange everything from silent film concerts to free student evenings to lectures on the history of technology.

The exhibition Life and Death – Humanity in Change is this year's winner in terms of the number of school visits and positive feedback from schools.

In collaboration with the Palace, we are showing Royal Cars as one of the year's changing exhibitions. From Crown Prince Olav's electric toy car from 1912, “Baby Cadillac”, to Crown Prince Haakon's Think from 2000.

The World's Coolest Day takes place at Akershus Fortress under the auspices of the DNB Savings Bank Foundation, and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology creates robotic insects with everyone who came by our tent on the popular activity day.

In collaboration with Deichman, Norway Makers, Tekna, Skaperskolen and Sparebankstiftelsen DnB, we are organizing the Oslo Maker Festival in the new Deichman. A weekend filled with inventions and making for 17,000 visitors.

Our colleague Torhild Skåtun will defend her PhD in the fall of 2022: Science, Identity and belonging, Engaging through co-design with young people at a science museum: a qualitative study of process, and we proudly secure another doctorate among our colleagues.

The new painting magazine at our remote storage facility is put into use, with the relocation of the museum's many Jens Wang paintings from the anniversary exhibition at Frogner in 1914.

We are completing the publication of 100,000 photographs on the Digital Museum from our collection, and are continuing the digitization.