Oslo Science Centre 's workshop is used for various types of teaching, where all programs emphasize student activity, creative joy and collaboration. In connection with the opening of a new creative workshop, TeknoLab, four new teaching schemes have been tested. These combine new technology with creative joy. In Teknoteket, a new teaching scheme has been developed, which uses weaving, an old craft technique, as a starting point.

During the last year, teaching in programming has been offered to children from nursery age to upper secondary school. Our niche is that we take coding off the screen and into the physical world. What you program on the screen has an effect on something physical, such as 3D models, patterns, robots, musical instruments and cars.

Oslo Science Centre is the regional science center for Oslo and its surroundings, which means that the science centre's area of ​​responsibility extends beyond the museum building at Kjelsås. Based on public surveys, it can be determined that there are large groups of the city's population who do not visit the museum today. In order to reach new potential visitor groups, it is important to be visible in the neighborhoods where people live. The museum has therefore entered into a collaboration agreement with Deichmanske, where science shows and creative activities are held outside in several of the library branches in Oslo south and Oslo east. This means that the museum, via the library, reaches a part of the population that today does not feel ownership of the museum, and in the long run this initiative may lead to an increase in visitors to the museum from the relevant urban areas.

The teaching offer for kindergartens has increased significantly, and has been in continuous development. The teaching programs have received good feedback and the main theme aimed at kindergartens has been mathematics.

The main focus on teacher courses has been science courses for kindergarten staff and courses in programming and creative workshops in schools. The courses have received extremely good feedback. What the courses have in common is that they are activity-based, where the participants participate actively. In addition, the second round of the continuing education Programming and creative workshop in schools was carried out. The continuing education runs throughout the school year 18/19, is a collaboration with OsloMet, and combines day courses on various topics with a week of practice in the creative centers.  

For the first time in several years, the museum again offers mathematics lessons. New mathematics activities have been established for kindergarten, junior high school and 3rd-4th grade. class. The aim is to make mathematics concrete and playful.

• The creator's workshop is a fantastic offer for children and young people, but also for teachers who can come here and learn more. It's basically about today's young people having to understand technology, but also help create technology, not just consume technology. I believe that what we see here will put the students in a better position to help solve many of the future's puzzles, says Minister for Knowledge and Integration Jan Tore Sanner.

The weekend and holiday program 2018 contained a large selection of activities with several newly developed schemes aimed at a family audience where play and learning are central. A clear goal has been to link activities thematically to the museum's core activities.  

• Kodepine Emma taught the music coding program Sonic Pi, Political game workshop with Kristina and Ole Haley, Summer workshop with the organization ByVerkstedet where the public could make bird boxes, boom boxes or gym bags, in collaboration with a sewing workshop. With RELOVE, soft stuffed animals were made from recycled materials and textiles from Hjula Væveri.

• Theme weekends were held with new activities that convey technology, history or science, such as the Feminist animation workshop, where the public could give the women a voice by making an animation clip about them. In connection with the exhibition PEOPLE, research into human biological variation was taken up for the little ones, with the story of Abrakasebra who was frozen out of the village because Gunnar the goat and the other animals did not trust striped animals. A new astronomy show was developed with experiments and simulations that seek answers to the universe's greatest secrets such as life on other planets, the sun and space rockets. Other activities were Laser crawling, Rubber propeller boat, LEGO WeDo, Did you know that... and not least French planes.   

• BUILD THE CHANGE was held for the eleventh time, where the theme was LEGO LOVE and visitors could frolic in a ton of LEGO bricks and build something they love.

In 2018, the museum offered seven different educational programs in medicine. The offer extends from kindergarten children to upper secondary school students. The offer has consisted of; Contagious (kindergarten), The skeleton and the body are top (primary school level), BLOOD (intermediate level), Skeletons in the closet, Clean and dirty (high school). PEOPLE (junior high school and upper secondary school). In the dialogue-based teaching program PEOPLE - from racial types to DNA sequences , students are challenged to reflect on the historical and current research on human biological differences. The sound installation Lyden av FOLK, developed in collaboration with Grorud youth council, enables a creative interaction to express themselves about a theme in a soundscape.

The teaching program Clean and unclean is adapted to the Health and care line in vocational subjects and was the most popular teaching offer at the museum in 2018 with 104 tours in total. This offer has become an integral part of several schools' teaching in hygiene in VG1 Health and care.

In total, 3,630 students and teachers participated in a teaching offer within medical topics in 2018, divided into 185 tours, which is a slight increase from 2017.

27 groups participated in Meeting with Memories, a tailored service for people with dementia, which has existed since 2009. The tours are based on cultural historical objects that can strengthen people's memories and start a dialogue. Two different experiences are offered: Folk og fiff i farten, about bicycle trams, royal cars and Caravelles, and De nære ting, about houses and homes from the interwar period to the present day. A new program has also been tested and will be offered from January 2019; God helg about music and nightlife, sports and leisure, Saturday treats and radio from the 1940s-70s. A total of 133 users have participated in this in the past year. The service is a collaboration between The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , Geriatric Resource Center and the Oslo Municipality Health Agency.

SENT is a well-integrated evening concept with an 18-year age limit that mixes research dissemination, popular entertainment and more experimental stage formats with workshops, DJ and bar. In February, 500 people gathered at the SENT museum on the topic of beer with lectures on traditional brewing, a yeast lesson and the opportunity to participate in a brewing workshop. Labels, film and photos were shown and conveyed vividly from brewery books and yeast journals from the museum's historical archive after the Oslo Breweries. A student choir performed beer songs and a student brewing guild held a quiz.

In 2018, the museum's visitors could experience the magic of repair in the newly opened, well-equipped TeknoLab. In collaboration with Restarters, two fixing parties were arranged. At SENT during the LEGO Festival, visitors were invited to bring their old and beloved electronic products, to screw up, explore and repair them. The following weekend, the children also got to fix their own electric toys. Restarters provided a group of volunteer "fixers" and the museum with the tool.

On the first weekend in November, young and old could follow popular science lectures about chemistry in everyday life in the museum's pop-up science cafe. Among other things, they heard about good chemistry, the chemistry in coffee and other molecular gastronomy, poop, pee and farts in the periodic table, plant dyeing in industry and the chemistry in the technical conservation of museum objects.

At the chemistry square, visitors could experiment themselves and see demonstrations from staff at the museum and the school laboratory in chemistry, at the University of Oslo (UiO). In addition, photo archivists at the museum facilitated a workshop in cyanotopy, an ancient photographic copying technique. The chemistry festival was organized in collaboration with UiO and the Norwegian Chemical Society.

Senior curator at the Medical Museum, Ageliki Lefkaditou, in conversation with author and geneticist, Adam Rutherford. Photo Håkon Bergseth.

As part of the research days and European Researchers' Night, we organized Researchers' night – Making Sense Together, in collaboration with the Museum for University and Science History (MUV), UiO. The event was an interdisciplinary researcher's night with thematic anchoring in the newly opened exhibition PEOPLE — from racial types to DNA sequences, and other ventures at the Medical Museum. Researchers and visitors were invited to workshops and dialogic discussion tables in the exhibitions, and an on-stage conversation between author, geneticist and BBC presenter Adam Rutherford and curator of FOLK Ageliki Lefkaditou. There they took part in two artistic interventions, a guided tour and a dialogical DJ set. The event was supported by the Research Council of Norway.

Listen to the conversation DNA gap: What's missing in the history of everyone who has ever lived? with Ageliki Lefkaditou and Adam Rutherford:

In October, Medisinske rom opened, a completely new arena for open, safe, in-depth conversations between visitors and professionals about questions related to medicine, health and society. The conversation series builds on the dialogical conversation tables the museum has offered during events in recent years. First event in the Medical Rooms series. The power of diagnosis addressed gender diversity and the power of diagnosis about transsexualism, gender identity, diagnosis and treatment. Invited guests with expertise in activism, medicine and historical research led, together with moderators from the museum, small group conversations for the nearly 100 visitors. The event was supported by Fritt Ord. Medical rooms is also an upcoming exhibition that will open in the Medical Museum in 2020.

- I would like to praise the museum, which creates these new conversation rooms for us. I have gained a completely new view of what a museum should and can really do. Thank you very much, says Janecke Thesen, general practitioner in the specialist group for LGBT health in the Medical Association.

Janecke Thesen from the professional group for LGBT health (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health) in the Medical Association during the event. Photo Thomas Fjærtoft.

The major exhibition effort PEOPLE – from racial types to DNA sequences, opened in March with lectures, artistic features and a three-day international research conference. During the spring, a series of themed tours were arranged, including Race: a dangerous myth?

Furthermore, International Museum Day used to lift the responsibility of museums in the event Doing and undoing race at the museum, and during the Cultural Heritage Days 2018, the award-winning film Family Picture, which tells about the hidden Sami identity, was shown, and the audience got to meet filmmaker Yvonne Thomassen.

The exhibition Power outages - are you prepared? opened with the Homeric seminar in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO). The exhibition Future Vocational Education, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, took place at the museum, and was one of the government's markings of the Year of Vocational Education.

In the exhibition Grossraum – Organization Todt and forced labor in Norway 1940-1945 , curatorial tours were held about Hitler's polar railway and about Albert Speer's activities in Norway.

The museum celebrated the 80th anniversary of the popular craft and industrial exhibition Vi kan with Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening, lecture and presentation of sources from the archive.

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Labour Day was celebrated together with the Workers' Museum and the European Route of Industrial Heritage with dancing at the Sailcloth Factory on the Akerselva River, synchronized with 33 other industrial monuments in Europe.

A guided bus tour to a selection of Oslo's concrete architecture starting in the archive after the Teigen photo studio was the highlight of the archive day on 10 November.

Oslo maker festival was organized in collaboration with Deichmanske bibliotek, Tekna, Norway Makers and the National Center for Science Recruitment at Deichmanske main library. Micro:bit party, a two-day hackathon was organized in collaboration with Norway Makers, Kodeklubben Oslo and Åpen sone for experimental informatics at UiO. We offered family-friendly exploratory activities for 600 visitors during the Oslo Cultural Night and the Crime Laboratory - a week of forensic activities for school students and other visitors.

In the spring, the children's musical Bydyra performed by Tusmørke in the Musikkmaskiner exhibition, and in the autumn several concerts were arranged by Captain Credible on his locally built instrument in TeknoLab.

The museum hosted the TENK (Tech-Network for Women) Tech Camp which brought together 200 girls of secondary school age for summer school, the final of the Kikora MatteMarathon and a nationwide science competition in collaboration with NITO and Kahoot!

The museum was the venue for Space Day 2018 under the auspices of the Norwegian Astronautical Association with lectures on Apollo 8, the international space station and space psychology.

In collaboration with Oslo Museum, the museum organized Akerselva activities both as walks along the river and lectures. This is part of the dissemination effort on industrial history that Oslo Museum and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology were given responsibility for in 2010.

Hidden women - The permanent exhibitions largely deal with a time when women had limited opportunities in working life. But even a hundred years ago, half the population were women, who lived and worked in a society. Stories about hidden women were drawn up until 8 March and followed up during the student week at the start of the semester in autumn 2018. Women's stories linked to the museum's exhibited objects were about factory workers in the textile industry, pioneers in the car and aircraft exhibition and public employees.

The Vi kan exhibition 1938 - The Oslo Craftsmen and Industries Association organized the Vi kan exhibition, at the association's 100th anniversary. People became familiar with new consumer goods from Oslo companies. Optimism and faith in the future were at the centre, expressed through technology, innovative exhibition design, advertising and architecture. The exhibition area along Frognerkilen contained exhibition halls, pavilions and an amusement section with a carousel and roller coaster. In connection with the exhibition's 80th anniversary, brochures, letters and photographs from the archive were shown in the industrial exhibitions, in addition to lectures and entertainment taken from the exhibition.