Kulturhistorisk Museum

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The main building of the Kulturhistorisk Museum in Oslo.

Kulturhistorisk Museum (KHM) is a museum of the University of Oslo .

The main building of today's Kulturhistorisk Museum was built in the Art Nouveau style in 1897 after a decision by the Storting to build a new museum building for the construction of a State History Museum in Oslo, based on designs by the Norwegian architect Henrik Bull . As of 1999, several museums were merged and re-established under the name Universitetets kulturhistoriske museer . These include the Oldsaksamlingen Museum (which includes the Vikingskipshuset on Bygdøy ) as well as the Myntkabinettet and Etnografisk Museum . In 2004 the name of the museum was changed to Kulturhistorisk museum .

Egil Mikkelsen became the museum's first director in 1999. The Danish anthropologist Rane Wilerslev took over this position on November 1, 2011.

The exhibitions of the Kulturhistorisk museum are currently spread across four main buildings in Oslo city center, the Historical Museum at Frederiks gate 2 and Frederiks gate 3, the laboratory at Frederiks Gate 3 and St. Olavs Gate 29, and the Viking Ship Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula .

Tour of the main building at Frederiks Gate

Ground floor : In the left part of the building, the Middle Ages are presented in three larger and some smaller rooms. The focus is on some specimens of larger rune stones (including the rune stone from Tune ) and some wooden stave church portals . One of the smaller rooms shows the only surviving larger interior of a church from the Norwegian Middle Ages with its painting, Ål Stave Church in Hallingdal. Special Viking themes can be found in one of the larger rooms. The world's only surviving Viking helmet , the Gjermundbu helmet , can also be viewed here. Opposite the entrance is the treasury with exhibits made of gold, including the Hoen treasure from Buskerud province . The cash register with a slightly larger museum shop is located in the right part of the building. In 2016, a new exhibition entitled "Collapse" will open in a larger room, with which the parallels between Norwegian pioneer settlement, Polynesian cosmology and urban gardening will be shown.

2nd floor : On the left there is a small collection on antiquity in the Mediterranean area and a larger presentation on the subject of "Arctic" (traditional clothing and everyday objects of the indigenous population, Roald Amundsen's collection from his expedition from 1903 to 1906). On the right, in separate rooms, the areas: Ancient Egypt (sarcophagi, mummies, grave goods), America and a hall of the Bank of Norway, which is dedicated to the function of the Norwegian gold holdings of the National Bank during the German occupation in World War II.

3rd floor : these exhibition rooms are reserved for temporary exhibitions and a lecture hall.

4th floor : The library is housed in the right part of the building and the East Asian collection is presented. The left part of the building is not (yet) used for the public.

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Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 7.7 ″  E