Events at the Historical Museum

Welcome to an introduction to The Sea is History on the second floor: Meeting point at the top of the stairs. 

Have you never been to the Historical Museum before, or maybe it's been a while since the last visit? The Historical Museum provides the public with free admission on the last Saturday of the month.

On the occasion of the opening of OsloPride, the Historical Museum offers a dance performance in the exhibition The Sea is History. On Saturday, June 15, entrance is free.

The Historical Museum provides the public with free admission on the last Saturday of the month.

Museum of Cultural History presents Donna Zuckerberg and her attention-grabbing book Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age (Harvard University Press 2018).

The Historical Museum provides the public with free admission on the last Saturday of the month.

The Historical Museum provides the public with free admission on the last Saturday of the month.

What is it like at the Historical Museum when all the lights are turned off and everyone has gone home?

The exhibition displays the works of ten international contemporary artists with themes relating to migration and displacement.

The Historical Museum provides the public with free admission on the last Saturday of the month.

Dance artist Ann-Christin Kongsness talks with Swedish choreographer Malin Hellkvist Sellén about her performance The Missionary. The conversation focuses on the queer-feminist perspective Sellèn uses in her artistic work. The Missionary will be playing 27-29 June at Scenehuset in Bogstadveien, see the performance event on Facebook.

Welcome to a concert, chat and quiz at the exhibition Secret Love/Kjær leik! Enjoy the exclusive original performance  of a work by composer Pauline Hall (1890-1969) and join the quiz on gay culture and history.

Welcome to the spectacular opening of this year's Pride exhibition at the Historical Museum! Oslo's cherished Mayor Marianne Borgen will officially open the exhibition. Artur Wilczynski, Canada's ambassador to Norway, will offer diplomatic greetings and mezzosoprano Adriano Angelico will sing love arias. DJ Bright Eye aka Fethawit Hakin will create an additional party atmosphere and refreshments will be served. Join the celebration of this year's Pride exhibition at the Historical Museum – cultural history is created here!

Over the recent years Museum of Cultural History at University of Oslo (KHM) has engaged in various kinds of collaborations between researchers and artists. We have presented historical artefacts as art works, we have displayed contemporary non-Western art, and artists have engaged with our collections in various ways.

Social anthropology Master's students present their annual photography exhibition, displaying field work undertaken around the world

An installation on loss and mourning. The exhibition offers perspectives on disappearance and deals with how time is experienced through the material world. 

In connection to the annual Forskningsdagene, anthropologist Geoffrey Gowlland, invites you to join in a workshop, based on his project exploring what animal traps in the museum`s collection may tell us about human ingenuity and the way we relate to other species.

Guided tours, demonstrations and taste samples - from Ancient Egypt to urban gardening in contemporary Oslo.

This seminar explores Orhan Pamuk's museum vision in conjunction with the exhibition "Orhan Pamuk: The Art of Fiction" at The Museum of Cultural History. The program features international scholars within—amongst other subjects—museology, cultural studies and social anthropology, and is organized in cooperation with The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo

In June, a new exhibition opens in the museum's red zone about «nightlife», culture and life related to bars, clubs and other venues for lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people. Gay Clubbing is the result of a collaborative project between Queer Archives (Skeivt arkiv) at the University Library in Bergen, Kunstplass 10 and the Museum of Cultural History. The exhibition opens in conjunction with Oslo Pride in June 2017 and is displayed in the Historical Museum from the opening party on 22 June at 6PM to 27 August, 2017.

Gold is power – gold confers respect. For 2600 years, rulers have issued gold coins in order to meet and exchange value with confidence. The feats of individuals live on in marks of honour of gold.

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's 2009 novel The Museum of Innocence is an ode to Istanbul, as well as being a classical love story. In 2012 Pamuk opened a museum with the same name in Istanbul, and in 2017 the novelist will visit the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo.

Food offerings in the Kingdom of Tonga. Lecture by the social anthropologist Arne Perminow