Museums and museologies in Norway

Authors

  • Brita Brenna University of Oslo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.6403

Keywords:

Norwegian museums, museology, heritage studies, Norway, museum history

Abstract

The Norwegian museum landscape has been refurbished during the last
decades. Smaller and topographically scattered units have been merged into large
museum conglomerates, small streams of funding have become regular rivers of
governmental financial support, and the notion of the societal role has become the
landmark for all museums to navigate by. Museological research and education
has grown from being a wild flower to become a modest perennial in the museum
field. This article will from such a modest museological perspective outline some of
the basic features of the changes museums and museology has gone through. The
particular perspective from which the author views the field is the MA-programme
in museology at the University of Oslo.

Author Biography

Brita Brenna, University of Oslo

IKOS - Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

Centre for Museum Studies

Professor of Museology


Downloads

Issue

Section

Articles