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

WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY PROGRAM

When the museum was closed to visitors in the spring of 2021, priority was given to activity development at the Life and Death and Fairytale Interiors, as well as digital dissemination. See separate section below.

In collaboration with the Red Cross, the new activity Save Anne! developed, where the audience could learn more about the Norwegian rescue doll and try out basic first aid on their own. The Vaccine Factory was tested to spread knowledge about mRNA technology and vaccine technology. As an integrated part of Life and Death, an activity room has been built. In the Open Breathing Room, the audience could explore the room, practice first aid, browse books or just take a breather.

In addition to tours and activities atLife and Death,the summer program was characterized by activities linked to the exhibition Adventurous Interiors with several art-relevant workshops, such as plank weaving, lino printing and tableware decoration.

In the fall of 2021, the weekend and holiday offer was expanded to include several programs in the Teknolab creative workshop. The offerings have included disco ball soldering, 3Dprintingand a Drawing Robot.

Venneforeningen's day was organized on 28 November with, among other things, official opening of the Industrimodellen, tour of Halvorsen's workshop and fixing party in collaboration with Restarters. The audience also drove large model trains from the Norwegian Model and Steam Association.

BERGEN RADIO, RUNDEMANNEN

The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology collaborated with Museum Vest and Bergen Broadcasting on an open house for walkers on the occasion of Get Out Day on September 5. About 350 people made the trip up to see what the transmitting station looked like inside. A small exhibition has been produced inside the building where the story is told. The radio amateurs received and sent messages from a temporary station, and also allowed visitors to try their hand. We also received radio broadcasts compiled from interviews with the former workers at the station. There was great interest in the building and in the radio amateurs' program.

The application process for access to water and sewage has still not been clarified. The case is being processed by the city council's department for climate, environment and urban development in Bergen municipality.

EXTERNAL ARENA

In addition to the number of visitors to the museum, 1,464 visitors have been registered at external venues.

While the museum was closed and schools were open, the Super.bit project instead traveled to schools and taught. In addition, many of the talent center camps at the three hubs in Oslo were conducted under strict infection control regulations. The museum has had science shows at several external venues, including Deichmann Holmlia and the Neighborhood Festival at Grefsenkollen, as well as the Aviation Museum in Bodø and the Christmas Fair in Lillestrøm.

The new telecommunications and computer exhibition I/O was represented at Spill Expo at the Norwegian Trade Fair in Lillestrøm with a mini-exhibition, activities and lectures.

The tenth Akerselva marathon was held on the first Sunday in September, with a walk in the lower part of Akerselva from Vaterland to Operastranda. The event was in collaboration with the Arbeidermuseet - Oslo museum and historian Leif Gjerland .

On October 28-29, the National Medical Museum co-organized Psychiatry at the Village, a seminar at the Randsfjord Museum, in collaboration with the Randsfjord Museum and Valdres Museum.

Photo: Håkon Bergseth

LEARNING OFFER FOR SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN

The school offering is a central part of the business and extends from preschool, primary school, upper secondary school to adult education. The learning offer for the students is developed based on the school curriculum, where dialogue, activity and inspiration are central to learning.

In 2021, school visits were 19,195, which is 3,557 more than in 2020. Kindergarten visits came to
1,648, a decrease of 1,155 from 2020. A total of 14,854 students, teachers and kindergarten children received a learning offer, an increase of 4,380 from 2020. Of these, 11,035 received an offer at the museum, 854 at arenas outside the museum and 2,965 received a digital offer. The digital learning offer received an increase of 1,978 students, compared to 2020. Of the digital offers, the most students received Kodekraft with 1,740 students, Nordlys og magnetisme with 533 and Høydepunkter 501.

The school offer spans several subject areas, such as history, medicine, social studies, natural sciences, programming and maths. The new offers in 2021 were: tour of the Adventurous Interiors exhibition, creative programming and 3D writing, soldering of a disco ball, soldering and programming of traffic lights, inventor's workshop and shadow city. Five out of six new offers are linked to the museum's creative workshops.

Themes/learning offers where the most school pupils received an offer in 2021 were in programming, The industrial revolution, Highlights and in medicine. In the past, astronomy has been one of the most popular offers, but in 2021 there were 740 pupils who received an offer within the subject. In 2020, the number was 2,493 pupils. The decrease is due to the fact that the offer Stars in sight and Astroamp was not offered due to technical problems, as well as the fact that the museum has had low visits from the primary school level in 2021. The low number of visits from the youngest pupils is connected to the pandemic, the museum was closed during the period when most primary school pupils visit the museum .

The learning offer in medicine saw an increase in 2021, when the exhibition Life and Death was opened in August and replaced the exhibition Healthy soul in a healthy body. The museum reintroduced the medical offers The skeleton, Body is top and Clean and unclean. The Clean and Dirty offer has previously been the most ordered learning program at the museum and is adapted to students on VGS Health and Education subjects. The offer was very popular with 1,826 pupils. In comparison, 1,705 students received the same offer throughout 2019. In 2022, the museum will offer more learning programs within medical topics.

In 2021, the kindergarten offer has consisted of the Dragon Berta learning offer. The offer has been popular with 292 kindergarten children, an increase from 2020. The museum will offer more learning programs for kindergartens in 2022.

TEACHER'S COURSE

Due to the pandemic, there have been few teacher courses in 2021, but a number of teacher courses related to the Super:bit project were conducted in the fall of 2021. In addition, the postponed 40 -hour course in creative methodology, in collaboration with OsloMet and the Science Center , UiO, has been completed.

DIGITAL MEDIATION

The museum's resources such as exhibitions, collections and outreach work should be made available to more people and it is therefore desirable to test more digital tools. During the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, many new digital formats were tested and expertise in this has increased considerably. We will further explore how the physical and the digital can work better together, to reach even more people, both regionally and nationally.

Important digital outreach initiatives in 2021:

Digital learning opportunities for school classes have been Luft sub vingene, Høydepunkter and Nordlys og magnetisme. The teaching takes place via screens in our exhibitions and guides can see and talk to the students along the way and answer questions. With funding from Equinor,
1,740 student teachers have participated in the fully digital teaching opportunity Kodekraft. Kodekraft is an introduction to programming for 9th and 10th grade, and is broadcast from the museum. Kodekraft won the Sponsor and event award for "Transformation of the Year 2021".
The audience could experience a digital Easter program with a preview tour of the exhibition Life and Death, ascience show, an electro show, quackery and pastille bakery, and a Micro:bit orchestra with Captain Credible. A science show resulted in a TV spot on the district news on NRK.
On June 10, the museum showcased various parts of its operations through Visit Oslo's Instagram account with over 260,000 followers.
In December, the public was challenged by the museum's advent calendar: 24 experiments, knowledge questions, etc. that hid behind the calendar windows on the museum's website and on Facebook, where people could test their knowledge about computers, telephony and other things related to the I/O exhibition.

On the museum's website canfind an overview of digital teaching and digital resources. Under Program, you will also be able to get an overview of digital scienceshows, experiments or lectures.
Through the app Voice of Norway , the Akerselva was digitally revitalized. Using the app, hikers can hear about the industry along the Akerselva while they walk.

Long-haired man holds science show and plays with flames

Photo: Thomas Fjørtoft

OTHER DIGITAL EVENTS

January 23: The 7a switchboard: 100 years of the first automatic telephone switchboard, interview with Arve Nordsveen.
January 27: The Industrial Revolution in Norway 1850-1950. Lecture by André Granum and Dag Andreassen, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends' Association.
February 17 and March 10: Critical Walk webinar series at Critical Fashion Walk, a pilot project curated by Johanna Zanon in collaboration with The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Supported by KORO, Institut Francais de Norvège and Culture[s] de Mode.
February 24: The history of vaccine technology by Gunnveig Grødeland, immunologist and researcher, UiO. In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends' Association.
March 12: Community and Differences – One Year of the Pandemic in Norway The National Medical Museum marks the one-year anniversary of the pandemic in Norway by asking what inequalities and skewed structures the pandemic has revealed? How can we change these? With B. Sheikh-Mohamed, emergency room physician in Lillestrøm Municipality, Samina Tagge, head of the Minority Committee, Stig Frøland, professor emeritus of medicine and author, and Esperanza Diaz, acting head of the Pandemic Center.
24 March: Where does the water in Oslo go? Technology history lecture by Yvona Holbein, Planning and Building Agency. In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and Venneforeningen.
March 26: The museum message Trust, Things and Time was launched by Minister of Culture Abid Raja. The launch was framed by the exhibitionLife and Death and a medical science show.
April 28: The history of power transmission through 100 years by Ann Myhrer Østenby,
Ellen Skansaa andChristine Snekkenes at NVE. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate in 2021. In collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends' Association.
May 5th: Hitler's builders – Ketil Gjølme Andersen in conversation with Øyvind Arntsen (book release)
May 26, 2021: Russian Journey into Atoms. About the Periodic Table and the Hunt for New “Superheavies”. Streamed lecture by Dr. Alexander V. Karpov from the Flerov Institute, Russia. Hybrid meeting in collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends Association.
June 1: Meeting with Memories: What's Up - Cultural experiences for the elderly and people with dementia in the time of corona. Webinar with exchange of experiences organized by Meeting with Memories.
August 12th and 13th: TENK Tech Camp was also offered digitally for those who do not have the opportunity to participate physically.
August 25: 100th anniversary of the Dovre Line. Technological history lecture by Johan Anton Wikander, former chief engineer at the Norwegian National Rail Administration. Hybrid meeting in collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends' Association.
October 27: Who's coming? Objects in the new permanent telecommunications and computing exhibition I/O. Presentation and discussion by project leaders Dag Andreassen and Henrik Treimo, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Hybrid meeting in collaboration with Tekna, NITO and the Friends' Association.

EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

Event programs for exhibitions, research, archives and collections were also cancelled, postponed or solved digitally when the museum had to close in the spring. The museum has had significantly fewer physical events in 2021 than in previous years, and almost all events have had number restrictions.

Opening events

After the summer, the museum was finally able to officially open the new basic exhibition Life and Death – the Changing Human Being at the National Medical Museum. The opening was presided over by Assistant Director of Health Espen Rostrup Nakstad on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 p.m. Due to infection control concerns, the event was only open to the media and special invitees. The program included a panel discussion on inclusion with Robert Steen, Karen Dolva and Bjørn Hatterud, performances of specially written works for the exhibition by Ulver, and the museum's Artists in residence, BodyCartography, interpreted the exhibition through their performance in the exhibition.

Together with the National Museum, we opened Sand in the Machine a month later, where works from the National Museum's collection have crept into The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology's exhibitions. The opening was hosted by directors Karen Hindsbo and Frode Meinich. Guests were treated to an exclusive performance by Lin Wang in Life and Death and the inauguration of the installation Murmur by Maia Urstad, as well as an art hunt presented by GabrielAlexander Syed Jansen, one of the children who contributed to the subtitles for the works in the exhibition.

Mattering Oiltransformed the museum's exhibitions into a temporary gallery laboratory 29 October - 7 November.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology shall, in its dissemination practice, see everyone, regardless of background, capacity, gender and age. This shall be reflected in inclusive and integrative meetings with our visitors. We shall facilitate inspiring conversations and wonder across age, background, function and prior knowledge.

In 2021, several measures have been taken:

The museum's audience profile does not fully reflect Oslo's population. We need to make ourselves relevant to new visitor groups. The museum and science center will initiate and participate in projects and activities at library branches, youth clubs, adult education, selected festivals and other relevant meeting places in Oslo. The Talent Center for Science has had teaching at branches at Hellerud, Hersleb and Persbråten upper secondary schools, funded by the Sparebankstiftelsen DnB until 2023.

There has been activity at three youth clubs in the Grorud district, funded by Bufdir until 2021.
Youth clubs in Oslo have been severely affected by the pandemic, but smaller creativeworkshops have been set up at several of the youth clubs. The youth club initiatives are financed through funds from Bufdir. The project has been extended until 2022.

In 2021, the project collaboration Living Local Culture with several museums, districts in Groruddalen, Inner East and Oslo South, Deichmann and the Department of Culture in the Municipality of Oslo.

Free family tickets for the summer of 2021 have been distributed to Gamle Oslo and Søndre Nordstrand via their social media. 1,426 adults and 1,487 children accepted the offer. 39% of the responses are first-time visitors. Many cite distance and little information about the museum in these districts as reasons for not having been here before. In collaboration with the Grorud district, 15 young people aged 14-18 got summer jobs at the museum.

On October 15th, the museum was the venue for the eventCommunication and Life Mastery. Visitors could try making music, playing games and communicating with eye control, switches orbreathing. The event was in collaboration with Digjobb, and the SKUG center at the Cultural School in Tromsø, as well as several companies that work with assistive devices for alternative and augmentative communication (ASK). The museum was visited by many ASK users in wheelchairs. ASK users need various communication aids, such as hand signs, graphic symbols, communication books or speech machines. One of the technologies was shown by Ruud van der Wel from the Netherlands, who has developed instruments where you can make music on an iPad and control games with your breath. A music group from Ragna Ringdals Dagsenter had a concert, where they combined traditional and eye-controlled instruments.

Meeting with Memories is a tailored visit program for people with dementia. We offer guided tours with a dialogue of remembrance for groups from day care centers and nursing homes. Singing, poetry reading, photographs, audio recordings and touching old objects get the conversation started.

In 2021, there were no bookings or tours in the first half of the year due to corona restrictions. In the autumn, 11 tours/groups were conducted, with 63 users and 27 companions. There were both people living at home with dementia in day care centers and people from nursing homes and residential institutions.

In 2021, work began on improving accessibility at events for people with disabilities. We are continuously working to make tekniskmuseum.no equally accessible to everyone.
As of January 1, 2021, all pages and relevant information for museum visitors online must follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

One of our employees has a Master's degree in Early Years and Childhood Education from Leeds Beckett University. The title of the thesis is Can multimodal interventions make educational settings such as museums more accessible for children with autism spectrum disorder? In connection with the master's degree, further work will be done to improve accessibility at the museum for students with special needs.

Work has been initiated to facilitate learning opportunities for adult education, including with a focus on multilingualism.