KulturNav is a Norwegian cloud-based software service, allowing users to create, manage and distribute name authorities and terminology, focusing on the needs of museums and other cultural heritage institutions.
[2] KulturNav is designed to enhance access to heritage information in archives, libraries and museums, working across institutions with common metadata.
[4] The application programming interface (API) currently supports HTTP GET requests to read data.
[8] The website was launched on 20 January 2015[4] and is currently being used by approximately 130 museums in Norway, Sweden and Åland.
[8] In March 2015 the Swedish national register of photography was in the process of being transferred to the KulturNav site.