Oslo City Museum (''Oslo Bymuseum'') is a department of
Oslo Museum
Oslo Museum ( no, Oslo museum) is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of Oslo, Norway. The museum is headquartered at Frogner Manor in Frogner Park, together with two of its departments; Oslo City Museum and Theatre Museum.
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in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
, Norway.
The museum is located at
Frogner Manor
Frogner Manor (''Frogner HovedgÄrd'') is a manor house and former estate in today's borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway. The estate comprised most of the modern borough of Frogner, which has been named after the estate, and Frognerseteren wit ...
(''Frogner HovedgÄrd'') in
Frogner Park (''Frognerparken'').
The museum was first founded in 1905 as the association ''Det gamle Christiania''. Initiator and committee leader until 1912 was architect
Fritz Holland (1874-1959). A committee members included Bishop of Oslo
Anton Christian Bang, architects
Torolf Prytz
Torolf Prytz (26 December 1858 – 16 June 1938) was a Norwegian architect, goldsmith and politician for the Liberal Party. He led the goldsmith company ''J. Tostrup'' of Oslo from 1890 to 1938, having inherited it from his grandfather-in-law ...
and Harald Olsen, artist
Eilif Peterssen
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits.
Biography
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Osl ...
and military officer
Thomas Heftye. The museum moved into the main building at Frogner Manor in 1909.
Oslo City Museum was a private association until the end of 2005. In 2006 it became part of the newly established
Oslo Museum
Oslo Museum ( no, Oslo museum) is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of Oslo, Norway. The museum is headquartered at Frogner Manor in Frogner Park, together with two of its departments; Oslo City Museum and Theatre Museum.
History ...
, together with two other museums; the Intercultural Museum and the Theatre Museum. Oslo Museum is now headquartered at Frogner Manor.
Oslo City Museum has an extensive library with the purpose of documenting the history of the City of Oslo, as well as the former municipality
Aker. Particularly valuable is the museum's art collection and photo collection with Oslo motifs and portraits. The museum has one of the largest and most important
photo
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now crea ...
collections in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
. Additionally the museum has an
art
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
collection which contains around 1,000 paintings and around 6,000 other works.
''About Oslo Museum (Bymuseet)'' (Oslo Museum)
References
External links
Oslo City Museum - Official site
Museums in Oslo
Photography archives in Norway
City museums in Norway
Local museums in Norway
Art museums and galleries in Norway
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