Norwegian Justice Museum
 Norwegian Justice Museum |
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| place | Trondheim, Kongens gate 95 |
| Art |
Police and legal history
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| architect | Ole Peter Riis Høegh |
| opening | 2001 |
| management |
Brynja Bjørk Birgisdottir
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| Website | |
The Justice Museum ( Norwegian Justismuseet ) in Trondheim is Norway's national museum for police , justice and prison system .
history
It was founded in 2001 as the Norwegian Legal Museum ( Norsk rettsmuseum ) and received its current name in 2016. Parts of the collection go back to the Kriminalmuseet in Hornemannsgård, which was set up in 1918 , which was the police station at the time. However, this forerunner was only used for internal training and was not open to the public.
Exhibitions
With around 20,000 exhibits, the museum has one of Norway's largest collections on police and legal history and has taken over objects from the police museums in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen, such as utensils on crime and punishment, the development of the penal system and psychiatry , the role of the Gestapo and SD during the German occupation (1940–1945).
The museum is located at Kongens gate 95 and is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on the first Sunday of the month from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. (2018). Admission is free. The permanent exhibition is regularly supplemented with smaller special exhibitions. Many objects are presented in online exhibitions.
building
The museum is located in a listed building, built by the architect Ole Peter Riis Høegh (1806–1852) from 1833 onwards. It initially served as a guard for the Trondheim city fortifications ( Skansevakten ), then alternately as a men's and women's prison. At the end of the 19th century it was converted into the first institution in the country for the dangerous mentally ill. After 1961 the house was mainly used as a warehouse and fell into disrepair. Renovated in 1990/92 and used as an office building, it housed the Trondheim Police Museum from 1997. In 2003 it was taken over by the Norsk rettsmuseum .
Exhibits
Executioner's utensils , 17th century
From the 1850s, photo collections were created with convicts and suspects.
Gestapo and SD moved into the Misjonshotellet in Trondheim during the German occupation .
The German Enigma I was used after 1945 by the Norwegian domestic news service in a modified form as the Norenigma .
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Web links
- Justismuseet (Norwegian, English)
- Digitalt Museum exhibits of the Justice Museum online
Coordinates: 63 ° 25 ′ 48 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 42 ″ E