ICOM-CC is coming to Norway
14 – 18 September 2026
ICOM-CC is coming to Norway
14 – 18 September 2026
By Børre Høstland/Nasjonalmuseet
By Iwan Baan
3 sites: Historical Museum, Museum of the Viking Age, Økern-Labs and stores
The Museum of Cultural History has three sites spread across Oslo: the Historical Museum, the Museum of the Viking Age and laboratories and stores at Økern. Archaeological and anthropological objects make up the bulk of the collections. The museum also houses unique Medieval polychrome sculptures, stave church portals, a coin cabinet and runic archives. The new Viking Age Museum will open sometime in 2027 or 2028, and will display 8000 objects from the Viking Age, including the world’s three most intact Viking ships.
By AART architects
By RAA
Edvard Munch bequeathed his entire collection to the City of Oslo through this will from 1940. After several decades in the Tøyen location, inaugurated in 1963, the collection is housed now located in a brand new building, opened in October 2021. The collection encompasses over 42 000 museum objects, including almost 28 000 unique art objects by artists Edvard Munch, Rolf Stenersen, Amaldus Nielsen and Ludvig O. Ravensberg. The 26 724 collection items authored by Edvard Munch include around 1200 canvas paintings, 7050 drawings and sketches, 18 322 graphics with 842 different motifs, and 14 sculptures.
NIKU is Norway’s only research institute with cultural heritage as its main purpose, and is one of the leading institutions in the field in Norway. We have cutting-edge expertise in the Middle Ages, climate and environmental issues, digital heritage, cultural heritage in society, churches and more.
By Maja Granberg, NIKU
Norway’s largest museum of cultural history. Collections are focused on everyday life from 1500 to the present day. The Norsk folkemuseum foundation includes the Bogstad Manor, the Bygdøy Royal Manor, the IBSEN Museum & Teater, Eidsvoll 1814, Norwegian Maritime Museum and Norsk Folkemuseum.
Niels Gerhard Johansen, NOC, Paintings Conservator Niels.Gerhard.Johansen@norskfolkemuseum.no
Mari Grønlund Hamre, NOC, mari.hamre@norskfolkemuseum.no
By Norsk Folkemuseum / Anne-Lise Reinsfelt
A Museum Association which comprises four Sámi Museums (in Karasjok, Kautokeino, Lakselv and Kokelv) and the Sámi Art Collection (in Karasjok). The museums display Sámi arts, history, tradition and culture, and demonstrate knowledge production and cultural diversity from coastal areas to the inland. One of the goals of the Sámi Museum in RDM is to preserve and develop Indigenous Sámi languages, cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
Nidaros Cathedral Restoration Workshop has been responsible for the restoration, maintenance and operation of Nidaros Cathedral and the Archbishop’s Palace since 1869. Twenty three crafts people still use traditional tools and techniques, and in close cooperation with the Research Department, they have acquired unique insight into medieval building techniques and practices.
Ringve Music Museum is Norway’s national music museum with a collection of over 2500 instruments and the only conservation laboratory for musical instruments in Norway. The museum is seated on an old country estate just outside Trondheim’s city centre and is surrounded by the beautiful Ringve botanical garden. The museum is a part of the Museums of Southern-Trøndelag which cover folk art, music, industry, deaf history and culture, coastal culture, art, decorative art and design displayed and mediated at 32 locations.
The University Museum of Bergen comprises cultural and natural history collections and botanical gardens. The museum holds more than 4.7 million objects in the fields of archaeology, Medieval ecclesiastic art, cultural history and anthropology, paleo/botany, paleo/zoology and geology. The museum is fully integrated into the University of Bergen as a research institution equivalent to a faculty. Established in 1825, it has witnessed a 200-year history of collection care in Norway. It contributes to the development of the conservation field, conducting specialised work in archaeology-, polychromy and painting-, textile-, graphic- and natural history conservation in modern laboratories and storage rooms.
