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New film boosts Kon-Tiki Museum

Not everyone agrees that the new film "Kon-Tiki" should be Norway's candidate at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, but Oslo's Kon-Tiki Museum is riding...

‘Kon-Tiki’ film hit stormy seas

Norwegians have been streaming to cinemas in record numbers to see the new epic feature film Kon-Tiki, about their most famous explorer Thor Heyerdahl's...

Ovations greet new ‘Kon-Tiki’ film

The applause was long and loud after the long-awaited film about Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition premiered at the film festival in Haugesund...

Sparks fly over ‘missing’ meteorite

The Natural History Museum in Oslo put out a call this week for what its curator feared was a missing meteorite that hadn't been...

Museum won’t fly Norway’s flag

The director of an art museum in Trondheim is refusing to swap the museum's own plain, purple flag with the official Norwegian flag on...

Police probe sale of forged statue

Oslo policed are investigating the sale of a forged version of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland's popular  statue "Sinnataggen." They fear more forgeries of Vigeland's...

‘Brave’ art exhibit opens at Kistefos

SEE THE VIDEO: Government officials stayed away, but hundreds of others lined up on Sunday for the opening of a landmark exhibit at the...

‘Scream’ seller can avoid tax

Norwegian shipping heir Petter Olsen probably won't have to pay any income or capital gains tax on last week's sale of the famed Edvard...

Viking ships to stay berthed at Bygdøy

Norway's famed Viking ships won't be moved to a new museum that some historians and city officials have been promoting for years. A new...

‘Scream’ price may boost local pride

Oslo politicians have often been accused of failing to fully recognize the value of the art that their city inherited from the country's most...
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