MEDIATION, LEARNING AND EVENTS

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.

WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY PROGRAM

For museets helge- og ferieprogram har det vært lagt vekt på å få til flere tekniske aktiviteter.
Museet har testet ut mange nye formidlingstilbud for både skolebesøk og helge- og feriepublikummet. Det har vært fokus på å utnytte synergien mellom Oslo Science Centre og de teknologiske mulighetene som ligger i den nye tele- og datautstillingen I/O. Vitensenteret har også hatt drift og opplæring på flere nye aktivitetstilbud i Teknolab.

I vinterferien kunne man løse ulike oppdrag i Teknoteket, kjøre dampveivals, lage en morsenøkkel eller lære grunnleggende programmering i koding med Sphero. Sommerferieprogrammet kom i fire varianter med ulikt fokus: Programmering, medisin og aktiviteter knyttet til I/O med kunstig intelligens og maskinlæring. De siste to sommerukene kunne de besøkende kjøre dampveivals og lage papir. I høstferien var det igjen Legofestival, for første gang siden pandemien. Nytt av året var Duplohjørne for de aller minste og morsomme oppdrag som løses ved hjelp av LEGO. Loddeverksted ble holdt i Teknolab.

Venneforeningens aktivitetsdager ble avholdt 22. mai og 20. november. I tillegg til museets ordinære aktivitetstilbud, fikk de besøkende bl.a. oppleve aktivitet med radioamatører, fikseverksted i samarbeid med Restarters, åpent Halvorsens verksted og ikke minst et damplokomotiv fra Norsk modell- og dampforening som de minste kan få kjøre rundt i, ute på museets terrasse.

Helt frem til mai har vi hatt samarbeidsutstillingen Sand i maskineriet fra Nasjonalmuseet stående innimellom våre egne gjenstander og utstillinger. Spesielt ble rebusløypen for å finne en rekke av kunstverkene svært populær. Den ble kalt Skattejakten og fikk publikum til å oppsøke større deler av museet enn vi har vært vant til. Konseptet ble videreutviklet til en ny rebusløype hvor de
besøkende kunne bli bedre kjent med utstillingene fra sommeren 2022.

This summer, our mediators made Nitrogenis for the visitors. Photo Haakon Bergseth

EXTERNAL ARENA

The most important arenas in 2022:

The museum has held science shows at the Deichmann branches in Bjerke, Linderud, Nordtvet, Stovner and Torshov, as well as the Sentrumsløpet.
Countless soap bubbles have been blown at two festivals in Drammen, and at the Eid festival at Rådhusplassen.
In collaboration with Deichman, the museum has organized a Maker Festival at Deichman Bjørvika with soap bubbles, algorithmic art and vinyl printing. The festival had 17,000 visitors.
In collaboration with Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, the museum had an activity on the World's Coolest Day where the children could solder their own robot insects.
Activities with Talenthubs at Persbråten, Hellerud and Hersleb funded by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB and Talenthub at Kongsberg funded by Ferd.
In the spring of 2022, there was activity and collaboration at three youth clubs.
Many external teacher courses have been held: The speech center has trained 480 teachers and 393 have received courses in programming through the Super:bit project.
In collaboration with the Arbeidermuseet, Oslo museum, the museum has organized a brewery tour on historic grounds in Oslo led by brewery historian and conservator at the museum Ingebjørg Eidhammer and microbiologist Tore Hage from Ringnes.
In collaboration with the Arbeidermuseet, Oslo museum and Bodel Sagene, organized Akerselvamaraton, Akerselva, you clean and blue, mediating walk up along the river from the Vaterland bridge.
In collaboration with Computas and IKT-Norge, the museum organized a Breakfast Talk during Arendal Week, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's new major initiative - a necessary arena for success with AI/KI.
The regional activities in the telecommunications area in 2022 consisted of guided tours and dissemination of telecommunications history at the Lødingen telegraph station. The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology owns the Bergen Radio transmitting station at Rundemanen in Bergen. In 2022, a new water and sanitation facility was established, which will facilitate more extensive dissemination in the summer of 2023 in collaboration with Museum Vest.

The fishing game is always as popular. Photo: Håkon Bergseth

LEARNING OFFER FOR SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN

In 2022, the school visit was 47,410 at the museum, 2,073 at arenas outside the museum and 244 at the Kodekraft digital learning offer. In total, the school visit ended at 47,410, which was 24,396 more than in 2021. The kindergarten visit ended at 7,237, which was an increase of 5,589 from 2021. A total of 35,204 pupils, teachers and kindergarten children received a learning offer, an increase of 18,950 from 2021.

The school offer spans several subject areas, such as history, medicine, social studies, natural sciences, programming and maths. The new offers in 2022 were: Build the platform of the future in LEGO (offer limited to 3 weeks), Programming artificial intelligence on micro:bit (8th-10th grade and VGS) and Creative programming and algorithmic art (8th-10th grade). Steps and VGS). The latter was very popular among 8th-10th graders. steps. For kindergartens, Explore stream with Oskar was a new offer in 2022.

Themes/learning offers where the most school pupils received an offer in 2022 were Science show, Body and health, Highlights, The industrial revolution and programming. Programming saw a decrease in the number of students, when Super:bit went from being a student offer to becoming a teacher course in 2022. With the new programming offers in connection with the telecommunications and computer exhibition I/O, programming is still among the most popular topics .

The school visit in 2022 normalized after two years of pandemic. The number of visitors is higher than the last normal year in 2019. The number of students at the creative activities and Science Show has increased since 2019, for The Industrial Revolution, student visits have doubled, and communication in connection with the Instrument exhibition has tripled since 2019. The subscription scheme for the Nordre Aker district has continued in 2022, 5,684 students and teachers made use of the offer. This is an increase of 275 from 2021. As of 5 December, 6,732 people between the ages of 6 and 15 were registered in the district. This means that a large proportion of the district's children visit the museum via school.

The kindergarten offer in 2022 has consisted of Berta the Dragon and Explore Stream with Oskar. The latter was new in 2022 and was launched in November. In 2022, the number of kindergarten children on a learning offer has doubled from the last normal year in 2019. The total number of visits from kindergartens has remained low compared to 2019. The decrease from 2022 to 2019 is around 60%. In 2022, the museum has had a trial scheme in collaboration with the district of Nordre Aker, where kindergartens received free entry from August to December. Around half of the kindergarten visits in this period were from Nordre Aker. In 2022, the museum collaborated with Mobil minimuseum, to create two rolling boxes with a dissemination plan for kindergartens and 1.-2. grade AKS groups, with a medical theme.

Birkeland's world space in the Instrument exhibition. Photo: NTM/Thomas B Fjærtoft.

DIGITAL MEDIATION

During the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, many new digital formats were tested and competence in this has increased considerably. Within digital communication and production, activity in 2022 has been significantly lower than during the pandemic. A digital school offer called Kodekraft ran as planned until the summer holidays. Kodekraft is an introduction to programming for young people. the step. After the holidays, the offer was changed to a physical offer at the request of the schools. Three other digital offers have also been discontinued due to a lack of orders. In-depth interviews with teachers show that pupils want physical activities and physical teaching and schools therefore steer clear of digital offers.

It is important to test out the combination of physical and digital formats. We have developed a new family trail that combines physical objects in the exhibitions with film clips that visitors can watch on their mobile phones. In 2022, a box was developed with a mini-exhibition about working life from 1950 - 1980, which nursing homes can order in the form of texts, pictures and objects with, among other things, a narration box that initiates music, films and still images. Two rolling boxes were also made with a dissemination plan for kindergartens and 1.-2. grade AKS groups, where the children hear about life in old Christiania and get to know Maren i myra. Through the Bædi og Børdi mobile app, children can hear about several of the museum's objects in a fun and creative way.

Through the mobile app Bædi og Børdi, children can hear about several of the museum's objects in a fun and creative way.

From the medicine exhibition Life and Death, where digital dissemination has been carried out in 2022. Photo: Lars Oppstad

ARRANGEMENTER OG KONFERANSER

The museum's event program for exhibitions, research, archives and collections gradually started up again when measures around events eased early in the year. Some postponed events from last year were carried out in 2022.

Opening events

This year, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology launched the largest exhibition initiative in the museum's history - I/O, an AI-powered exhibition about the history of telecommunications and computing. The exhibition kicked off on 7 April, with a ceremonial opening by HRH Crown Prince Haakon. The program included presentations from curators Dag Andreassen and Henrik Treimo, founding partner of Snøhetta and architect Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, and director of the Norwegian Technology Council Tore Tennøe, who also led a conversation with professors Taina Bucher and Morten Goodwin about AI. Center of the Universe contributed the songs NFT and TRACK ID. FFI's robot dog Freke and a GTP3-based debate in Reaktor also played roles this evening. The museum's director Frode Meinich led the program. Due to space constraints, the event was for invited guests only.

On April 21st, the first major artistic intervention in the new basic exhibition Life and Death in the National Medical Museum opened at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . Artists in residence BodyCartography Project presented specially developed choreography for the exhibition and a series of lectures and workshops under the title A collection of fluid spaces. The work is inspired by the development of the embryo in the womb and demonstrates a critical alternative to the static visual representations that dominate today.

Together with the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), the museum opened the traveling exhibition Balansekunst on June 2nd about NVE's work on balancing different considerations in its work with natural hazards, hydropower and energy over 100 years. Artist Marte Wulff played and Arne Bjørn Mildal, Director of ICT and Information Management at NVE, designer Carine Nylander from Knowit Experience and photo archivist Thale Sørlie from The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the research project Sustainable Energy Narratives spoke. The exhibition was opened by the museum's director Frode Meinich and Arne Bjørn Mildal.

Thursdays

Throughout 2022, the museum was open for a long time on Thursdays from 9-21 with science shows, dissemination in I/O or technical activities in the creative workshops. In addition, all other evening events were also added to Thursday, such as the technology history lecture series, SENT, student evenings, film screenings and concerts:

10 February and 8 September: Free student evenings with competitions and activities in the creative workshops. 30 September: LEGO party, a spontaneous preview of the festival with an 18-year-old age limit and bar. November 10: SENT I/O, mini-festival, concert with Niilas, discussion workshops on ethics and artificial intelligence held by Cathrine Bui and Michael Puntschuh, workshop in machine learning and programming on a sand printer, a research robot and other new technologies at the Open Zone for Experimental Informatics, IFI, UiO, DJ Henrik Villard, bar, the artwork Kitty AI and the language algorithm GTP3 discussing topics from I/O in the debate arena Reaktor. The workshop on ethics and AI was supported by the Sparebankstiftelsen.
24 March and 1 December: The silent film concerts Metropolis and Lyden av Méliès in collaboration with Cinemateket. Kristin Bolstad, Fredrik Gundersen, Kjetil Schjander Luhr, Christian Skaugen, Erlend Magnus Barratt-Due Solum and Karl Strømme played for Metropolis and Bolstad, Luhr and Anders Hofstad Sørås for Méliès' films.
31 March: On life and death, about music and illness in the 18th century, a concert with baroque violin sonatas played on original instruments by Maren Elle, Christian Kjos and Gunnar Hauge and a heartwarming narration by doctor and historian of ideas Anne Kveim Lie.
22 September: Research festival about the body with a dozen stands and lectures in the museum's foyer in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Pharmacy, UiO. The festival was part of the Research Days.
November 24: Beer Marathon, three expert lectures on beer by conservator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology Ingebjørg Eidhammer, author Lars Marius Garshol and microbiologist Tore Hage.

From February we again arranged our monthly technology history lectures. These provide current insights and historical views on the development of technology in work and everyday life, infrastructure, industry, research, medicine and health, natural sciences and engineering. The lecture series is arranged by The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Technology History Group (THG) in Tekna, NITO – Oslo branch, and The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's Friends Association. This year's lectures have been:

Why do boats look the way they do? Lecture on the development of the shape of boats in the last 200 years by Bjørn Pedersen. He has a long experience in shipping and shipping and maritime history, among other things. as chairman of the Norwegian Maritime Museum's Friends.
Sound production in live TV, by Billy Henningsen, retired sound mixer and sound designer at NRK-TV, Professor Emeritus from The Norwegian Television School, Høgskolen Innlandet.
Telepolitics – from regulation to release. Presentation of one of the themes in the museum's new telecommunications and computing exhibition I/O, by conservator at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology Ketil Gjølme Andersen.
From night man to waste suction, and heap to sorting facility, by Øivind Brevik, director of Samfunnsbedriftine.
Dangerous factories. About the emergence of factory supervision ... and why women also needed supervision, by conservator Tone Rasch, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .
Physical oceanography – a Scandinavian adventure by Joseph Henry Lacasce, professor of meteorology and oceanography at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.
Artificial intelligence at Roar Fjellheim, reeds. Eng. from NTH technical cybernetics, founder of Computas and director of business development within industry and energy.
Public health 60 years. What does the future look like for Norwegian healthcare, artificial intelligence, health apps and self-testing? by Mette Lundstrøm Dahl, senior adviser at the NITO Institute of Bioengineering, and Patricia Ann Melsom, former senior adviser at the NITO Institute of Bioengineering and former editor of Tidsskriftet Bioingeniören.

Other events at the museum

6 March: For Women's Day 2022, lecture on women in paid work in the 19th century
23 and 24 April: Code weekend in collaboration with the Norwegian Science and Technology Association and Equinor.
30 June: Free youth concert with Hkeem and William French in collaboration with Equinor.
11 and 12 August: TENK Tech Camp was held for the sixth time at the museum with technology workshops and inspiring lectures by women working in the technology industry. TENK Tech Camp is a free technology camp for girls aged 13-18 under the aegis of TENK - Tech Nettverket for women. Minister of Culture and Equality Anette Trettebergstuen opened the camp this year.
November 16: Girl Tech Fest, held for the second year in a row at the museum. GTF is the day where girls in 5th grade get to learn and explore what technology can be used for, an initiative from the ODA network, TENK - Tech Network for Women, ICT Norway and the National Center for Science Recruitment.

Lego is always popular at SENT at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . Photo: NTM/Lars Opstad.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

In 2022, 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, selected festivals and other relevant meeting places in Oslo. The museum has had, among other things, had a science show at the Deichman branches Bjerke, Linderud, Nordtvet, Stovner and Torshov.
Free family tickets for the summer of 2022 have been distributed in the districts of Grünerløkka and Bjerke to try to equalize the demographic distribution of our visitors.
In collaboration with Grorud district, 15 young people aged 14-18 got a summer job at the museum. Several of the young people also worked at the children's festival "World's Coolest Day" at Akershus Fortress on 3 September.
In the spring of 2022, there was activity at three youth clubs in the district of Grorud, financed by Bufdir.
On 30 June there was a free concert in Flyhallen with Hkeem in collaboration with Equinor.
In 2022, we recorded visits from 1,402 Ukrainian refugees. Two groups have been given customized science shows.
Talent center for science has taught at branches at Hellerud, Hersleb and Persbråten high schools, financed by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB until 2023.
In connection with the master's thesis Can multimodal interventions make educational settings such as museums more accessible for children with autism spectrum disorder? work has continued to improve accessibility at the museum for pupils with special accommodation needs. In 2022, there are lockable cupboards with tool boxes for autistics and the visually impaired and hearing protection and binoculars have been purchased. To improve the listening experience for our visitors with impaired hearing, a speaker with a microphone has been purchased.
Møte med minner is an organized visit program for people with dementia. We have guided tours with reminiscing dialogue for groups from day care centers and nursing homes. Singing, poetry reading, photographs, sound recordings and touching old objects get the conversation started. In 2022, 30 tours/groups were conducted. There were both people living at home with dementia in day care centers and people from nursing homes and residential institutions. The scheme is supported by The cultural walking stick.

In 2022, a box was developed with a mini-exhibition on working life from 1950 - 1980 in the form of texts, images and objects that nursing homes can order. The exhibits are borrowed for 3 weeks, and will usually be moved and used in several departments. Part of a collaboration with Tidvis and other museums.