The Museum of Cultural History conducts research at a high international level and is Norway's leading research museum in the field of cultural history.
Collections
The Museum of Cultural History has over three million objects in its collections. We have archeological objects from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The collections of coins and ethnographic objects show the world's cultural diversity.
Research
The Museum of Cultural History conducts research at a high international level. Interdisciplinary research groups work with topics within the museum's focus areas, and are part of international networks.
Archaeological excavations
The Museum of Cultural History conducts archaeological excavations in the south and east of Norway. The museum is a professional advisor for the National Heritage Board, county municipalities and other bodies within cultural heritage protection.
Our museums
At the Historical Museum, you can see selected objects from Norway's largest cultural history collections and learn more about Norway's history and the world's cultural diversity.
We have the best preserved Viking ships in the world. Here you can learn more about the Vikings and how made their mark on the world. The new world-leading Museum of the Viking Age opens in 2026.
The University of Oslo is Norway’s oldest university and has played a pivotal historical role. The Museum of University History reflects the historical diversity and connects it to our present and future.
Events
Join us in discussing crimes through and against art, antiquities, cultural heritage, and luxury – and in shedding light on the ideologies that underpin the regulation of these crimes and moral infractions. Speakers will explore the dynamics of compliance and defiance, and the modes of transgression and forms of corruption that pertain both to rulemaking and rulebreaking, the making and unmaking of social order, the making and destruction of value, and the role of material culture in it.
Join us in discussing crimes through and against art, antiquities, cultural heritage, and luxury – and in shedding light on the ideologies that underpin the regulation of these crimes and moral infractions. Speakers will explore the dynamics of compliance and defiance, and the modes of transgression and forms of corruption that pertain both to rulemaking and rulebreaking, the making and unmaking of social order, the making and destruction of value, and the role of material culture in it.
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Our research
Subunits
The Historical Museum, the Museum of the Viking Age and the Museum of University and Science History are organized under the Museum of Cultural History.