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– The climate house can play a critical role in inspiring and engaging changes towards a more sustainable future, and to build hope that these changes make a difference, says the Crown Prince of Norway as he officially declared the Climate house open.
The museum is open with ordinary hours for the public. Providing a pleasant and safe experience for visitors at the museum, as well as our employees, is a priority for us, and we complying the regulations issued by the Norwegian health authorities in order to prevent contamination risk. Read more about the measures for a safe museum visit.
No need to brood on your vacation plans this Easter – we have already hatched them for you.
Due to forecasted strong winds the Natural History Museum including the Botanical Garden will be closed from 14:00 and the rest of the evening Friday September 21.
Due to strong winds the Botanical Garden and the rest of the museum had to bee temporarily closed Friday August 10. The museum is now open again with normal hours.
John Brittain at the Natural History Museum receives award for over 50 years of mayfly research.
Visit our museum shop and buy a unique vintage weed chart, produced in the 1930s by Norwegian agronomist and botanist Emil Korsmo.
Scientists recently discovered there is not one but four distinct species of giraffe, based on their genetic differences. These findings overturned century old accepted knowledge about a well known species, and may spur renewed efforts to save their threatened populations. Such "camouflaged" biodiversity – or cryptic species – may account for a substantial part of the world's biodiversity. However, searching for processes involved in "hidden" diversity is a daunting task, especially when no consensus even exist for what a cryptic species really is among researchers. A multidiciplinary team of scientists from the Natural History Museum in Oslo has taken on the challenge and proposes a new framework that provides researchers with common grounds in their hunt for biological processes underlying cryptic biodiversity.
In conjunction with awarding International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, a ceremonious presentation of seeds from Hiroshima Peace Trees took place at the Natural History Museum in Oslo.
Are you the new Research Director at the Natural History Museum? Apply by October 1st.
The lotus is now blooming. View the spectacular flower in Victroriahuset of the Botanical Garden.
Large-scale research project in molecular plant identification, led by NHM researcher Hugo de Boer, is granted 40 million NOK from the European Union.
Researchers from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, just finished describing a 144 million years old ichthyosaur from Svalbard. It is a new genus and species, published in PLOS ONE January 23rd 2017.
Assoc. Prof. Lee Hsiang Liow at the Natural History Museum and the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo has been awarded an European Research Council Consolidator Grant (ERC CoG) by the European Research Council for her project macroevolution.abc. The awarded 1.99 million Euros will allow her to erect a model system for studying long-term evolutionary dynamics.