Visit the center’s main exhibition, on the Holocaust and the fate of the Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. Images, sounds, objects and text document the genocide on the European Jews, as well as the mass murder and persecution of other groups and minorities during the era of National Socialism. The largest deportations of Jews from Norway took place with the …
They were all talented artists, but their lives got cut short. The exhibition “Unfinished lives” introduces 15 artists from all across Europe who were murdered during the Holocaust. Access to their art The exhibition is on display in the Music Room and the Great Hall at the Norwegian Holocaust Centre. With the help of QR codes, visitors are able …
This exhibition focuses on everyday racism and rests on the premise that we need to see and understand everyday racism for what it actually is in order to combat it. Two young visitors enjoying the humorous monologue ‘Why are you black?”. Photo: Trond Heggelund Racism is easy to recognise when it leads to violence and extremism. Contemporary everyday racism, on the other hand, can …
Villa Grande hides a historical bunker built for Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian Nazi party National Unity, who lived in the villa during the war with his wife Maria. Visit Quisling’s bunker! We have bunker tours every weekend and holidays. The tour is included in the entrance ticket. “The bunker was completed in 1943, and was built …
Naturhistorisk museum er Norges største naturvitenskapelige samling med ca. 6 millioner objekter. Museet består av W. C. Brøggers hus, Robert Colletts hus, Lids hus, Klimahuset og Botanisk hage. Botanisk hage dekker 150 mål og har ca. 35 000 planter fordelt på over 5500 ulike slag. En del av museets samlinger er tilgjengelige for publikum i de geologiske og zoologiske utstillingene.
Norsk Folkemuseum shows how people lived in Norway from 1500 to the present through its collections from around the country. Norsk Folkemuseum is Norway’s largest museum of cultural history. The 160 buildings in the Open-Air Museum represent different regions in Norway, different time periods, as well as differences between town and country, and social classes. The Gol Stave Church dating …
