The aim of the outreach program is to give the public insight into, deepening and excitement about the museum's exhibitions on technology, science and medicine. The exhibitions are accompanied by an exciting information program with tours and a wide and varied selection of events and activities.

MEDIATION, LEARNING AND EVENTS

DIGITAL MEDIATION

In 2020, many new digital formats were tested. The museum's goal is to make exhibitions, collections and dissemination programs available to more people.

Rocket show

On 28 and 29 March, a Rakett show was streamed on Facebook. On 29 March, this was done in collaboration with Dagbladet. It broke all previous records with 41,773 viewers.

Experiment

Several videos were produced under the headings Experiments against hangover sickness and Experiments you cannot do at home. Among the experiments was Balloon in a bottle, with a reach of 41,592 people, 116 likes, 8 comments and 16 shares. Slime had a reach of 51,428 people, Egg - search coverage, a reach of 94,680 people and Dancing Raisins reached 50,230 people. Extra grants from the Skaperskolen/Sparebankstiftelsen to the Science Centers during the shutdown in March-April helped us get several fun and informative videos under the title Science creation.

Learning and activity

Kodekraft is digital teaching in technology, algorithmic thinking, programming and energy challenges for 7,000 students in the 10th grade, funded by Equinor. Streaming for learning offers has also been tested, i.a. on the Northern Lights and magnetism.

A resource page for teachers has been created on the museum's website; Explore, play, discover! which is connected to learning offers and curriculum goals with e.g. experiments you can do at school or in kindergarten. In April, children were invited to take part in a 3D printer bonanza where they learned a completely new programming tool to design 3D figures. 15 lucky winners had their figure 3D printed at the museum. See the website: tekniskmuseum.no/3dprinterbonanza

Several activities were marketed with film clips, e.g. How to make beeswax paper? In 2020, we also tested out films on TikTok. Young people on summer jobs at the museum posted film clips from a selection of exhibitions and activities.

Through the Voice of Norway app, Akerselva was digitally revitalized. With the help of the app, walkers can hear about the industry along the Akerselva while they walk.

The corona diaries

The Medical Museum has collected stories from various environments and individuals about how Covid-19 has affected their everyday working life. During a self-selected period, the project's participants documented their everyday life, and how the coronavirus affects it. The documentation was done via mobile video recording, text or photos. Parts of the material have been published on the museum's website (tekniskmuseum.no/koronadagbokene) and will become part of the new medicine exhibition.

Exhibitions, tours and talks

Large parts of the opening event for Klima 2+ were broadcast digitally with e.g. tour, Science show and concert with ISÁK. Film clips have been made about, among other things, new ICT exhibition, the Water Wheel, the model railway and the Cray machine. A separate online exhibition on tuberculosis was also launched.

Several digital tours were given during the year, including in the Regjeringskvartalet and Grossraum exhibitions. We have had a panel discussion about beer and yeast based on sources and objects from the museum's archive and collections. There has been talk about forced labor during the Second World War and on 25 November La Ville d'Orleans was marked with a live broadcast.

The first testing of live broadcasting on Facebook was done on March 25 in the museum's largest object; SAS Caravelle Finn Viking, with almost 6,000 interested followers.

Selection of other digital events

8 April: Live concert with Captain Credible was streamed directly from the Teknolab.
April 24: From the archive: Beer brewing and ice cream
6 August: TENK Tech Camp run as an online event with 50 women from the technology industry at the museum and 200 girls of secondary school age at home. Culture and Gender Equality Minister Abid Raja opened the event.
22 October: ICT sponsor meeting with several film features.
24 and 25 November: Lecture and panel discussions: Are genes in fact the secret of life ? and Ocean explorations and the human body.
December 5: Science show .
10 December: Webinar about the museum offer for the demented..

LEARNING OFFER FOR SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN

The school offer is a central part of the business and extends from pre-school, primary school, upper secondary school to adult education. With a few exceptions, all learning offers are developed based on the school's curriculum. Dialogue, activity and inspiration are important in the museum's teaching programme.

In 2020, the museum was visited by 14,699 school pupils, a decrease of 29,449 from 2019. A total of 10,474 school pupils received a learning offer, of which 8,097 received an offer at the museum, 1,390 at venues outside the museum and 987 received a digital offer. The school offer spans several subject areas, such as history, medicine, social studies, natural sciences, programming and maths. Sustainable superhero was a new offer for 2nd stage in 2019. In 2020, the museum applied for the offer to Den kulturelle skolesekken (DKS), but was refused. The museum has applied to DKS for the 21/22 school year with the Papermaking offer. Answers are expected in January-February. The learning offer with the most students was Super:bit (2,860 students), where around half had the activity at their own school. The second most popular subject was astronomy 2,493 students, which includes the offers Planetarium, Astroamp and Stars in sight. Other popular offers were Highlights, medicine and a tour of industrial history. New in 2020 was a Science Show for students from the activity school during Oslo School's autumn holiday.

Until the closure in March, the museum had an increase from 2019 of 2,758 students (through week 11). When the museum reopened at the end of May, the offer was reduced due to infection control. All learning options had fewer students due to the pandemic, except for Natural Sciences, which is offered in the upper secondary school. The industrial revolution for upper secondary schools was also well attended. Pupils from upper secondary schools had fewer restrictions in using public transport than primary schools. After 12 March, the museum only had visitors from Oslo School, as well as some schools in Viken. Science shows were the offering with the biggest drop in visitor numbers. In 2020, 227 school pupils made use of the offer, in 2019 the number was 4,080. Science shows are offered in the high season, which this year had few visitors compared to previous years. AKS Science Show in the autumn holidays attracted 222 AKS students.

Programming

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 or cars. Through the Super:bit project, most pupils in the 6th grade in Oslo and Nittedal have received basic training in algorithmic thinking and programming. During the shutdown in March, the digital teaching program Kodekraft was introduced for 10th grade in Oslo.

Kindergarten

The teaching offer for kindergartens has consisted of; Bees and Flowers (Programming), Ready, Done, Go! (mathematics) and Dragen Berta Mysterium (Chemistry). Due to infection control, we could not carry out Ready, done, go! after the reopening. The most popular offer was the Dragon Berta Mysterium, with 20 orders for 196 children. This offer was reintroduced in 2019 and has maintained its popularity.

The planned courses for kindergarten staff were canceled due to infection control. Arrangements are being made for a digital kindergarten course in 2021.

In total, 273 kindergarten children have participated in a learning offer, spread over 27 drives, which is a decrease of 300 children from 2019. The total number of visits from kindergartens in 2020 was 2,803, a decrease from 2019 of 8,498 kindergarten children.

Medicine

In 2020, the learning offer within medical topics was short-lived. When the museum reopened on 30 May, the dismantling of the exhibition Healthy soul in a healthy body was underway. In the period from 2 January to 13 March, 99 VGS pupils had received the Clean and Dirty tour, which has previously been the most ordered learning offer at the museum. This offer will be reintroduced when the Life and Death exhibition opens in February 2021. The skeleton, an offer for 1.-2. step, was the only offer in medicine that could be implemented after the reopening. Other offers were Body is top for 3.-4. steps and Exploring sight for 8.-10. steps. The latter in connection with the exhibition BLIND SPOT. Body is top was popular until the closure, almost four times as many orders as in the same period in 2019. The offer will be reintroduced after the opening of Liv og død. In total, 744 students have participated in a learning offer within medical topics in 2020, spread over 40 sessions, which is a decrease of 3,223 students from the previous year. An audience strategy has been drawn up for the Life and Death exhibition .

Meeting with memories

64 users divided into 11 groups participated in Meeting with Memories , a facilitated service for people with dementia, which has existed since 2009. A doubling of capacity led to a record number of bookings early in the year and good visitor numbers until the closure in March. A smaller number of groups have had tours after the museum reopened on May 30, as these are people in the risk group. The tours are based on cultural historical objects that can strengthen people's memories and start a dialogue. Three different experiences are offered: People and fun on the go, Things close by and Good weekend. The latter was new in 2019 and was, as this year, the most popular of the three offers. Meeting with Memories is a collaboration between The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , Geriatric Resource Center and the Oslo Municipality Health Agency.

A national conference in March was cancelled due to the pandemic. A training seminar in collaboration between the Municipality of Oslo and the Centre for Professional Development and Research, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and other institutions in Oslo was cancelled in April. This seminar was conducted digitally in December. A digital pilot of Møte med minner is planned for 2021, for nursing homes with highly isolated users.

EXTERNAL ARENA

2,190 people received an offer at arenas outside the museum in 2020. This was mainly the learning offer Super:bit, teaching at three Talent Hubs, teacher courses, as well as a tour for school students at the Telemuseet in Tromsø broadcasters and the Telemuseet in Lødingen. During the pandemic, Super:bit was carried out by visiting schools in Oslo and Nittedal. For the same reason, the activities in the three youth clubs in Groruddalen were stopped in the spring semester, but the activities partially resumed in autumn 2020, before they were closed again in November.

WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY PROGRAM

The 2020 weekend and holiday program was strongly linked to the Klima2+ exhibition project and contained a large selection of activities that highlighted themes such as sustainability, climate activism and the UN's sustainability goals. This influenced both the choice of activities and the perspective with which we conveyed the museum's collections. This work builds on last year's dissemination experiences.

"Our need to express hopes and concerns, create meaning out of our surroundings, and share this through artistic expression with others, is as fundamental as our need to quench thirst and hunger.", said Regional Director of the World Health Organization for Europe, Piroska Ostlin.

During the winter holidays, we focused on climate, dystopia and hope. The WHO report was used as the basis for the winter holiday programme. The idea was to inspire family groups through activities and social gatherings at the museum to a sense of mastery and climate activism. We also invited Flu Hartberg to an exciting drawing workshop where he used the collections to draw a dystopian city together with both young and adult museum guests.

We continued the work of linking important environmental issues to social and educational activities for the whole family through workshops, shows and tours in the summer holiday program with clear links to the items in Klima2+. We also had the summer workshop open all summer and carried out many activities, such as water mills, insect hotel and other building activities that themed e.g. loss of biodiversity, plastic litter and energy. We also collaborated with the organization ByVerkstedet, which works for social urban development through participation. In this project, we have jointly designed and developed the activity My plant helps, a workshop about climate hope where families build plant houses together.

The free ticket project was continued from 2019 to 2020 in collaboration with the districts of Alna and Grorud, and this was very successful in terms of tickets used and the response rate to the subsequent questionnaire about the visitor experience. We continue to work with the audience development project where we want to find focus groups from the respondent group and find out how we are going to reach out to new visitor groups in the future.

TEACHER'S COURSE

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 the spring of 2020, a collaboration was established with OsloMet on a larger creative teacher course under the tab decentralized scheme. The course started in autumn 2020, and is scheduled to be completed in spring 2021.

INVESTMENT IN OSLO EAST

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. This means that the museum 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.

In order to increase our visibility in Oslo East, two major projects have been launched in 2020:

Establishment of a talent center for science branches at Hellerud, Hersleb and Persbråten upper secondary schools, financed by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB.
Activities at three youth clubs in the district of Grorud, financed by BUFDir.
Free tickets in summer 2020 for Alna district and Grorud district.

EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

The museum prepares an event program for current exhibitions, research, archives and collections. The program takes the form of tours, debates and dialogic conversation formats, workshops, lectures, concerts, film screenings and festivals. In addition, the museum has a large program of activities aimed at families, children and young people both inside and outside the museum.

The pandemic caused the museum to close for many months, and during the summer and early autumn when the museum reopened for a period, the size of permitted events was very limited. This led to the cancellation of our participation in the Mela Festival, the World's Coolest Day, Cultural Heritage Day, the Lego Festival and the Maker School Conference, and that some of the planned events were replaced by online events, these are included in this review.

The museum has focused on mapping and reducing the events' greenhouse gas footprint and increasing expertise in digital events this year.

The model railway

With speeches, poems and music from the railway's music band and model railway enthusiasts of all ages, we were able to celebrate at the start of 2020 that the museum's new large, detailed model railway was finally back at the museum and in full operation.

The government quarter

In February, while the discussion about both the preservation of the old and the construction of the new government quarter was still raging, the museum opened the Government Quarter - a photo exhibition about an important quarter. Mayor of Oslo Marianne Borgen presided over the opening, followed by an improvised piece of music from Maja SK Ratkje and Hilde M. Holsen. There were several curator's tours of the exhibition throughout the year, both broadcast live on Facebook and for visitors to the exhibition.

Klima2+

Shortly after the museum was able to open its doors again after the first closure, we had the pleasure of opening this year's exhibition venture Klima2+ , with a full-day program on the Internet and at the museum.

Climate and Environment Minister Sveinung Rotevatn opened the exhibition with subsequent appeals from Dina Lau-Henriksen, deputy chair of the Children's Climate Panel and Aurora Kobernus, head of the Nature Conservation Students at UiO/ one of the coordinators of School Strike for Climate in Norway. The band ISÁK sounded the opening. As part of the opening programme, visitors could also do textile printing with natural colours, participate in a repair workshop, a climate and technology tour and a Science Show, the last two of which were also conveyed digitally.

The evening featured a curatorial tour and a panel discussion about the globalized textile industry, fashion and sustainability. The discussion centered around the industrial loom, one of the main objects in the exhibition, and included designer and fellow Ida Falck Øien, HAiKw/ and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Ragnhild Brochmann, art and fashion historian and journalist, Morgenbladet, Therese Hugstmyr Woie, head of Natur og Ungdom, Linda Refvik, CEO of Norwegian Fashion Hub and curator of Klima2+, and conservator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , Nina Bratland. Tone Rasch, curator and conservator who works with textile industry history at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , led the panel.

After the summer's sustainability workshops on the museum's outdoor areas, autumn started with a web series about sound and ecology as part of the project Climata: Capturing change at a time of ecological crisis which we presented in collaboration with PRAKSIS, the Goethe Institute, Notam (Norwegian Institute for Technology in Music and Art ) and Grunenrecorder. With audio presentations followed by conversations, the artists Mikel R. Nieto, Leah Barclay, Annea Lockwood, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Jana Windern and Hildegard Westerkamp opened an exploration with over 500 participants on the digital platform Zoom; About how man-made sound affects biodiversity and climate, how sound can tell about how the world is changing, and can represent the change to mobilize meaningful reactions.

Antiopedes café, which is behind the activist reuse project Reshow, which is part of the climate exhibition, gave tours in the autumn where they examined the materials in the exhibition together with visitors and mapped out what could happen to them after the exhibition is over. During the autumn holidays, they also held workshops that used leftover cardboard tubes from the "forest" in the exhibition and transformed them into completely new usable things, such as chairs and tables.

In October, we collaborated with OsloMet's makerspace and Textile Action on textile workshops for selected school classes and families at the weekend. The textile action is a collaboration between players in the Norwegian fashion and textile industry and some environmental organizations and recycling initiatives, which work for a more sustainable production and consumption of textiles. Students from OsloMet led the activities and with their introduction the museum provided a historical background for textile production as it takes place today, what we can see for ourselves in the future, and how we can contribute to the solutions we need.

Malaria, Museum Things and Climate Change was the title of a presentation of another main element in the exhibition given by one of the curators for Kima2+ Ageliki Lefkaditou, as part of the Enviromental Lunchtime Discussion webinar series organized by the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, UiO.

Liberation anniversary

We marked the 75th anniversary with a live broadcast from the museum about the importance of forced labor during the Second World War. Ketil Gjølme Andersen, the researcher and curator behind the exhibition Grossraum, tells how Nazi Germany deployed a large number of forced laborers to realize its construction projects in Norway.

La Ville d'Orléans 150 years

The anniversary of the Elleville balloon ride with La Ville d'Orléans, which was presumably also the start of Norwegian aviation history, was celebrated on the very day of the landing on Lifjell in Telemark, 24 November. The museum presented its new exhibition about balloon travel, a dedicated website and a live conversation with the curator of the exhibition, Ketil Gjølme Andersen.

Beer and yeast

As part of the museum's series on beer, a SENT event on beer was planned for 2020. It was postponed for six months when the museum closed down, and finally ended up as a live online event from the industry exhibition at the museum. Under the title Beer and yeast, there was talk about the difference between traditional yeast and industrial yeast, which types of beer the early industrial breweries brewed and the importance of the breweries' access to ice. The museum's conservator Ingebjørg Eidhammer, who is writing a PhD on enabling technologies for Norwegian industrial beer export, had the conversation with Lars Marius Garshol, author and expert on kveik and traditional brewing, and Tore Hage, microbiologist with 30 years' experience in the Norwegian brewing industry.

Technology history lectures and walks

In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and Venneforeningen, the museum offers monthly technology history lectures, this year there were fewer than planned. One of the events that took place in 2020 was the Svalbard Treaty 100 years! How did Norway gain sovereignty and what challenges do we face? by Geir Ulfstein, professor at the Department of Public Law - the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. In the autumn, the lecture Rich in contrasts, about Nycomed's history in Norway, by history professor Knut Sogner had an audience both in the museum's auditorium and online.

Other collaborations, conferences

TENK Tech Camp usually takes place over two days at the museum in August, but this year became an online event with 50 women from the technology industry at the museum and 200 girls of secondary school age at home. Culture and Gender Equality Minister Abid Raja opened the event. In collaboration with the Tech network for women who work to encourage women to study and work in technology and to support women in the technology industry in Norway.

Industry research for the world's roughest ICT exhibition: In collaboration with IKT-Norge, the museum invited the industry to a breakfast meeting with Morgenlevering to the homes of all participants, looking for potential sponsors and partners for the new exhibition. In collaboration with the industry, the museum wants to create Norway's foremost museum arena for ICT. The exhibition is based on a unique collection of objects from Norwegian ICT history, Snøhetta arkitektkontor's innovative design and the use of artificial intelligence in the visitor experience. A panel of industry experts shared different views on why the Norwegian ICT industry should join this effort, there were Janne Stang Dahl, director of communications at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Jemila Daush, master's student at NTNU, Karen Dolva, co-founder and general manager of No Isolation, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, partner and co-founder of the architectural office Snøhetta, Merete Asak, technology director at Cisco and Torgeir Waterhouse, partner at the consulting company Otte and it was led by Fredrik Syversen, director of strategy and business development at IKT-Norge. The meeting ended with a mini-concert with Captain Credible on the museum's micro:bit orchestra.

Light Walk with a Glimpse of Life Sciences, was an evening event for families shaped like a light trail in The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , with activities and meetings with researchers working in medicine, life sciences, pharmacy, physics, psychology and chemistry. Organized by UiO:Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, Department of Physics, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology and RITMO in collaboration with the museum.

The pandemic caused The 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science to be postponed until 2021, so in collaboration with the program committee for the history of science conference and the history of science committee at UiO, two online events were arranged in one place: Are Genes in Fact the Secret of Life? lecture and panel discussion with Nathanial Comfort, professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with Ageliki Lefkaditou, Dag Undlien and Kristine Lillestøl in a panel led by John Kyllingstad and Exploration, the media, and the Body: Sensuous Geographies of Ocean Research, by Franziska Torma , professor of history at NTNU with Tirza Meyer, Tuomas Räsänen, Gregory Ferguson-Cradler in a panel led by Thomas Brandt.