Family Day at the viking museum
How can science save Viking treasures? The Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy in Oslo has invited the children to find out at this Sunday's Family Day.
How can science save Viking treasures? The Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy in Oslo has invited the children to find out at this Sunday's Family Day.
Even though Oslo's new National Museum will not be completed for another five years, you can now take a virtual tour of what will be Norway's largest cultural building.
The current, but soon-to-former Munch museum in Oslo when the new one opens in 2019, may become the site for a new Islamic museum.
Two years ago, police discovered 1,400 artworks in Germany that had been stolen by the Nazis. Now it turns out that 21 of these paintings were by famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
The city is hoping to get NOK 744 million in government support for the new Munch museum, a third of the total cost.
There are amazing new exhibition and activities in Norway and abroad as the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo celebrates the 100th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl's birth.