Norsk Teknisk Museum

On the northernmost outskirts of the capital is one of the most interesting museums of the city, the Norsk Teknisk Museum which translates into the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology, Industry, and Medicine was founded in 1914 to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution.

The museum opened to the public in 1932. Since 1985 the museum has been located at Kjelsås in Oslo, covering an area of around 25,000 square meters. The museum’s objective is to demonstrate the implications of progress in Science, Technology, Industry, and Medicine, socially and culturally, through the ages.

The museum has more than 80 interactive installations, 25 permanent and temporary exhibitions among them the exhibitions of music machines, the different forms of industrialization that took over the banks of Aker River after the mid-19th century, the exhibition of scientific instruments, the exhibition of logging and wood processing, on mechanical and metal industries, on medical history, on oil and gas production, on the microcosm, on hydroelectric power, on transportation…well, I guess all that would be enough to give someone a strong motive to diverge from the city’s center.

If not the various installations in the form of fun and informative games, or the digital workshop Teknoteket where you can build fabulous designs, create inventions with electronics or build imaginative cars that can run on the giant racetrack, maybe more tempting especially if you have children with you. This is a truly enlightening museum and a unique chance to have access to tools ranging from hammers and saws to electronic kits, 3D printers, and laser cutters. This museum is considered by many the best in the capital. Even if you are not a science buff this is not a museum to be missed. More