Teknisk museum

Join exciting discoveries in a museum with around 100 experimental installations, more than 25 exhibitions about technology and medicine - and, not least, exciting weekend and vacation programs filled with activities!

LOOKING LEARNING Oslo Science Center is the place to have fun while learning. Try everything from taking selfies in front of the greenscreen, testing the reaction time and competing with a friend to have the most brain control (and much more). Explore science and technology principles in the topics of energy, physical phenomena, the body, mathematics and space.

See also the medical history exhibitions about everything from the inside of the body to herbicide surgery techniques. The department also sits on large collections of objects, books and archivalia.

THE NEWEST EXHIBITION, Grossraum organization Todt and forced labor in Norway 1940-45 shed light on Norwegian collaborations and how the 130,000 forced laborers in Norway had it. Around 17,000 died in horrendous conditions.

STORY: The Association Norsk Teknisk Museum was founded in 1914, in connection with the great anniversary exhibition at Frogner in Oslo. Several of the museum's objects come from this exhibition. In 1995, the Norwegian Technical Museum became a national museum.

Since its inception, Norsk Teknisk Museum has had the task of being a contemporary museum and historical museum for industry, science and technology. Today, the museum also has national responsibility for the National Medical Museum.

The museum will convey the connection between technology, medicine and culture over time, as well as providing insight into the basic principles of modern technological processes and products that surround us today. The Science Center illustrates the basic principles of physics through offers of active and playful learning in interaction with exciting installations.

The museum's biggest challenge is to be a bridge builder between fragmented expert knowledge on the one hand and the public in broad sense on the other.

The Norwegian Technical Museum has previously held showrooms in the Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy, and in Fyrstikkalléen at Etterstad. Today's museum building was officially opened at Kjelsås in May 1986. The museum has 20 700 square meters. It includes showrooms and offices, warehouses and magazines, workshops and libraries.