Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Today's museum building at Kjelsås in Nordre Aker was designed by architect Rolf Ramm Østgaard and was officially opened in May 1986.

[2][3] The museum is an educational institution with collections, exhibitions, publications and other activities.

The museum's objective is to demonstrate the implications of progress in science, technology, industry and medicine, socially and culturally, through the ages.

The museum contains permanent exhibitions on transport and aviation, Norwegian industrial history, energy and electricity, music machines, the oil, gas and plastics, wood and metal industries, clocks and watches, calculating machines and computers, as well as a science centre.

[5] Dating from 1878 it entered the museum straight from the Oslo road department.