Geological Museum (Oslo)

The Geologisk museum in the Oslo Botanical Gardens.

The Geological Museum in Oslo ( Norwegian Geologisk museum ) or the Geologisk og paleontologisk museum ( German  "Geological and Paleontological Museum" ) was founded in 1917 and is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo . The museum was created on the initiative of geology professor Waldemar Christofer Brøgger and was opened to the public in 1920 with numerous exhibits. After the construction of the new museum began in Oslo Tøyen in 1911 , the 100-year-old mineral collection from Bergseminaret in Kongsberg was transferred to the University of Oslo.

The museum is also responsible for the scientific collections of Oslo University, rocks, minerals and various paleontological exhibits. The museum also houses an extensive library of books and magazines on botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology for scientists and students as well as for visitors.

The museum is connected to the Zoological Museum (Zoologisk museum) in the neighboring building and the entrances to both museums are open to the public in parallel. Both museums were erected as monumental stone buildings in the national romantic style in the Botanical Garden of Tøyen in Oslo .

On September 2, 2011, the building was officially renamed “Waldemar C. Brøggers House” (Waldemar C. Brøggers hus) on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Oslo University.

Web links

• Geological Museum on snl.no in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
• Geological Museum on nhm.uio.no of the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ museum director Arne Bjørlykke: UiO: Naturhistorik museum. Press release: Museumsbygningene på Tøyen får nye navn til UiO-jubileet. nhm.uio.no, September 2, 2011, accessed August 1, 2013 (Norwegian). 

Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 11.6 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 20 ″  E