Stories to read

Spiritism is a way of getting in touch with deceased people. The movement originated in the middle of the 19th century and came to Norway at the end of the century.

This gadget was launched as a kitchen robot in the 50s. For just NOK 16, it could help you in the kitchen. But was it really a robot?

Meet the robot Moddy in the telecommunications and computer exhibition I/O at The Norwegian Museum Of Science And Technology . It is a home robot made in Italy in the 1980s and intended as a kind of robot butler.

How could a small Norwegian factory that produced trolleys and wheelbarrows become a world leader in industrial robots?

One of the world's first spray cans was produced at Alf R. Bjercke's factory in Alnabru in 1933, in collaboration with the Norwegian chemist Erik Rotheim.

Oslo's main fire station at Youngstorget will soon be demolished to make way for the last building in the new government quarter.