Previous events

Can exhibitions be qualified as research-in-itself? If they can, then how? Which criteria should be the basis of evaluating and verify research exhibitions? The aim of the PhD course is to build a solid knowledge-base for understanding the relationship between exhibitions and research in the past and today, in order to collectively explore potentials and challenges for what can be called research-by-display.

Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology – InART2024 – in Oslo 4–7 June 2024.

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview which positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.

LUXCORE will present key results and new perspectives on the relationship between luxury, corruption, and global ethics. Our research challenges the effectiveness of anti-policies, highlighting the lack of meaningful change. The conference includes book launches, panel discussions, and a teaser of our forthcoming edited volume. Don't miss this opportunity at the Historical Museum – register now!

New technologies offer new approaches to research. However, the broad variety of different tools also brings the difficulty of choosing the right one for your research. At this symposium we will discuss issues related to new technologies – their profits and pitfalls.

Welcome to the conference and exhibition dedicated to the 55^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Norway. The conference explore Mongolia's first independence years, and the social and cultural changes happening in front of Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's camera lenses.

Welcome to a talk about written sources on plant dyestuffs in medieval and early modern times, with a focus on Scandinavian sources with Dr. Doris Oltrogge, Cologne University of Applied Sciences.

Welcome to a debate on the strategy of protection, digitization, rescue research and popularization of artefacts and archaeological sites with experts and hobby archaeologists from Ukraine, Poland and Norway.

Join us in discussing crimes through and against art, antiquities, cultural heritage, and luxury – and in shedding light on the ideologies that underpin the regulation of these crimes and moral infractions. Speakers will explore the dynamics of compliance and defiance, and the modes of transgression and forms of corruption that pertain both to rulemaking and rulebreaking, the making and unmaking of social order, the making and destruction of value, and the role of material culture in it.

A large number of Egyptian texts and iconography demonstrate the dualistic relationship between rituals and emotions in ancient Egyptian culture. At this symposium, world-leading researchers on the subject share their recent contributions to this fascinating research area.

This seminar will focus on the research potentials related to the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of exhibition making. The Research Council of the Museum of Cultural History would like to welcome you all to join us for this one day event.

What's the use of theory?

The online conference (in English) is part of the collaboration on the exhibition "North & South", which brings together, for the first time, a selection of examples of medieval altar art from Norway and Catalonia, two regions at the northern and southern edge of the continent.