Maritime Museum rescued

A shipowner and the City of Oslo have thrown out a life preserver to the financially troubled Norwegian Maritime Museum. It won’t have to close to the public after all. Kistefos AS, controlled by shipowner, businessman and investor Christen Sveaas, is offering NOK 750,000 in emergency funded, to be matched by the city, which will [...]

Illuminating local Jewish history

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus regularly on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The Oslo Jewish Museum (Jødisk Museum i Oslo), a welcoming,  sobering and relatively new museum exuding spirit and [...]

New climax in museum drama

NEWS ANALYSIS: The saga of Oslo’s “museums on the move” hit a new climax in recent days after one museum claimed it was being forced to close to the public and another’s pending move to new quarters was reported to be under threat. Some blame all the turbulence on political prestige. If that’s the case, [...]

Politicians back ‘Palace Museum’

At a time when some Oslo museums are struggling from a lack of public funding, and controversy reigns over the costs and turbulence of major museum moving plans, Members of Parliament are going along with royal wishes for a new museum to house palace treasures. Newspaper Aftenposten reported this week that there’s “broad political agreement” [...]

A journey through Oslo’s history

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus regularly on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The City Museum (Bymuseet) in Oslo, a way to learn hundreds of years of history in as little [...]

Official nod for new National Museum

Oslo got its long-awaited Opera House, and now the state Ministry of Culture finally has settled on a proposal for a new National Museum for the capital. It will combine several existing museums around town and be built just behind the Nobel Peace Center and Aker Brygge at Oslo’s inner harbour. The government minister in [...]

Nudity, spaceships, explosions…

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus every week this autumn on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: Oslo’s Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum that will at times make you laugh, at [...]

Ibsen’s ghost alive in his Oslo home

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus every week this autumn on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The Ibsen Museum, a great way to learn more about the famous Norwegian whose plays [...]

Seeing the light at an Oslo museum

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus every week this autumn on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Kunstindustrimuseet), a historic institution with a refreshing feel. [...]

Identity insight at National Gallery

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and aim to focus every week this autumn on a specific museum or attraction worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The National Gallery, a stately, historic institution on the brink of some major changes. Besides [...]

Strike closes Munch Museum

A new strike by oil workers in the North Sea was averted on Thursday, but Oslo’s famed Munch Museum was forced to close for the next two days because of another, ongoing strike by security guards in Norway. The museum didn’t have enough guards to protect its collections. The strike by nearly 2,500 security guards [...]

1950s in Norway weren’t so nifty

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and focusing every week this spring on a specific museum worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: The outdoor Norsk Folkemuseum is best known for its old timber houses and displays of rural culture and treasures [...]

New Viking probe may reveal secrets

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and focusing every week this spring on a specific museum worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: New examinations of Viking treasures found near the famed Gokstad ship may make a trip to Oslo’s Viking Ship [...]

Museums on the move may reimpose fees

Several museums that dropped their admission fees a few years ago in return for higher attendance may start charging visitors again, ironically to obtain needed tax write-offs. They may not be able to afford passing up the write-offs, especially given the expense of looming moves. Many museums in Oslo face expensive moves to new locations, [...]

Summertime at The Munch Museum

MUSEUM GUIDE: Norway’s capital is packed with museums, and they’re often popping up in the news. We’re following that news, and focus every week this spring on a specific museum worthy of a visit. THIS WEEK: Summer scenes from Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch, are highlighted in this year’s summer exhibition at The Munch [...]

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