MEDIATION, LEARNING AND EVENTS

Together with artist Svein Ove Kirkhorn, we made two visual and relational performances, Picnic and Kameleon, where the participants could become one with their surroundings with the help of camouflage and thus became part of a camouflaged herd that was only visible to each other. Kameleon was part of the BLIND SPOT program during Oslo culture night. Students in scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts, HiØ, presented three lighting works during Elvelangs, as part of a workshop collaboration linked to the exhibition with the museum.

In the framework of the Cultural Heritage Days theme Future cultural heritage, we gave the tour Hidden women who point to cultural blind spots in the museum's own exhibitions. In the industry exhibition, we brought out stories about women in important positions, hidden behind the stories about men who have been considered more important. We also organized a debate about museums and women's perspectives, and asked in the title the question Does Oslo need a women's history museum in collaboration with Voksenåsen, the Swedish Embassy and Stockholms Kvinnohistoriska, inspired by Stockholms Kvinnohistoriska which opened as a museum with a high level of activity without its own area earlier in 2019.

Under titles such as In the footsteps of the racial scientist, To portray a race, Lyden av FOLK and Human diversity vs race and racism, special tours of the exhibition looked at traces of the racial science activity in Norway in the last century, how photographs permeated physical anthropology, the collaboration with Grorud youth council about the sound installation Lyden av FOLK, and scientific, ethical and political challenges in today's anthropological and genetic research.

The award-winning film My mother's secret, about finding one's Sami identity, about concealment and the harsh Norwegian Norwegianization policy, was shown in the museum's cinema hall with a subsequent conversation with director Ellen-Astri Lundby. During the year, we had several guest appearances at the exhibition. During a SENT, Søstrene invited Suse to a radio cinema with Et bilde kan varmender, an episode in the radio documentary I Elsa Laula's footsteps through Sápmi. In the last week of the exhibition period, artist Aksel Ree performed Projecting guilt, a performative sculptural artistic work, on, in the snow outside the museum. As a finale for the exhibition, we staged the performance Vi er Norden, with stage artists Camara Lundestad Joof, Stina Aletta Aikio, Stina Ravdna Lorås, Trondur Bogason and Ingrid Tranum Velásquez. The performance staged rituals, dialogues, lectures and poetry to explore colonial practice and what decolonization means in the Nordics today.

The exhibition about forced labor in Norway during World War II ended with a tour of Hitler's railway project, the Polar Railway to Kirkenes, by curator Ketil Gjølme Andersen.

• The museum was an official partner in Oslo European Environmental Capital 2019.
• The first SENT of the year was created in collaboration with Restarters Norway, with a fix party and the panel discussion Everything can be repaired? on repair culture and circular economy. During the event, we also discussed how we can stem the polarization in the social debate together with the initiator of Hele Norge skarter.
• The experimental event Optimize the future was developed by the Office of Life + Art on behalf of the TIK center at the University of Oslo, in close collaboration with the center and the museum. The event explored bioeconomy as Norway's economic, social and environmental future and the values ​​that are at stake when investing in digital modeling of living systems as a basis for innovation and the national economy. Through playing with definitions, live talk shows, DIY bioprospecting and composing a new national dish, the participants were activated in the exploration.
• In the lecture Lessons learned from waterfleas, whales and bees, Professor Fern Wickison demonstrated the confusing mix of ethics, science and politics behind two major food controversies, genetically modified organisms in agriculture and hunting of whales and seals in the North Atlantic. The lecture, which was held at the University's Aula, was part of the ISHPSSB - The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology 2019 conference, which was organized by The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and
• Hafslund E-CO invited 7th graders to climate week at the museum with a focus on a fully electric and renewable society.
• The museum's popular science show with a focus on energy and the environment stood together with Oslo's mayor for the official opening of the 20th Elvelangs i fakkellys.

The museum continues to invest in Medical Rooms as an arena for open, safe, in-depth conversations between visitors and professionals about questions related to medicine, health and society. This year, two editions of the conversation series Diagnosens makt dealt with ADHD and Schizophrenia respectively. Invited guests with expertise in activism, medicine and historical research led, together with moderators from the museum, conversations in small groups for the visitors.

The event The unborn: The fetus between culture, science and politics showed the recent short film Ikon by Don't Stop The Motion. After the film, a panel discussion was held on reproductive technology and access to abortion, on the right to have and not have children. Medical rooms is also an upcoming exhibition that will open in the Medical Museum in November 2020.  

• Oslo maker festival is a festival for inventors, artists, researchers, hackers, craftsmen and people of all ages who want to create something. The festival is organized annually at Deichmanske main library by Tekna, Norway Makers and the National Center for Science Recruitment, Deichmanske library and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .
• The Chemistry Festival 2019, The World of Substances, with shows and a chemistry square, where visitors can carry out experiments themselves . This year we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. The festival is organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Chemical Society, the School Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oslo and the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
• The Lego festival Build the change was held for the twelfth time in collaboration with LEGO, this time with the theme "The power of the green". Among the audience's tasks was to design an innovative and environmentally friendly building.
• TENK Tech camp under the auspices of TENK (Tech- Network for women) brought together 200 girls of secondary school age for a free summer school to explore technology at the museum.

This is an incorporated evening concept with an 18-year age limit that mixes research dissemination, popular entertainment and more experimental stage formats with workshops, DJ and bar. This year, three SENTs were organized, one on repair culture, one on space travel and LEGO, and one on fantasies and technology, where the quantum computer, scifi and steampunk were the themes. During the latter, we opened an exhibition of hats inspired by steampunk in collaboration with Norwegian fashionistas and hat designers. The opening was held as an afternoon tea in collaboration with one of the city's tea salons and pianist Kjetil Schjander Luhr. Emile The Duke and The Switch played concerts at SENT in 2019.

In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and Venneforeningen, we offer monthly technology history lectures. This year, they were, among other things, about the history of beer brewing, the area's development in Nydalen, about Oslo's tramway history, about car production at Kambo and a reflection on Ekofisk, which was 50 years old. A technological walk from Vøyen to Nedre Foss was also arranged.

In collaboration with the Oslo Museum, the museum organized several popular walks along the Akerselva and in the city. This year the successes were called Brygg og bygg and Fleip or facts along the Akerselva River. 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.

• 7–12 June: The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology gathers over 550 researchers from disciplines such as life sciences, history, philosophy and social sciences. The conference was organized together with the University of Oslo.
• 11 November: The maker school conference in Oslo 2019 brings together 75 primary school teachers. They got to see how they can make the teaching of mathematics, science, arts and crafts creative, interdisciplinary and creative. The conference was organized by the Skaperskolen, a collaborative project between the Norwegian Center for Natural Sciences and the 10 regional science centers in Norway.