2017 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum has achieved a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for 2017.
Category Archives: Norwegian Petroleum Museum
Guided tours and events
Good guides makes a visit to the museum an extra interesting and educational experience.
We offer guided tours to all kinds of groups.
The Troll A platform is taller than the Eiffel tower
Troll A has total height of 472 metres, and is the world’s tallest movable manmade construction.
Oiling the economy – exhibition opened June 8th. 2010
The exhibition shows the importance of Petroleum for the Norwegian economy.
Energy – problem or solution?
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum opened an exhibition on Energy – problem or solution? in April 2013, which dealt with the most important energy and climate policy dilemmas facing humanity today. A website presents the information made available there. Energy and climate represent perhaps the biggest challenge of our age. The Earth’s growing population needs ever … Continue reading Energy – problem or solution?
Documenting national progress under water
A project to document the history of subsea technology in Norway has been launched by the Norwegian Petroleum Museum (NPM) at the urging of veterans in the country’s oil and gas industry. A group of people with long experience of the Norwegian petroleum sector held a first meeting in January 2013 on collecting and preserving … Continue reading Documenting national progress under water
DASA award 2014 for the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum has been awarded the DASA Award for 2014. The Award was presented during a dinner at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow Saturday 26th of April. DASA is an abbreviation for “Deutsche Arbeitsschutzausstellung” – and the price is awarded for museums that presents exhibitions on work life and social history. The jury … Continue reading DASA award 2014 for the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
Book – On the edge, under water – offshore diving in Norway
This book published in 2014 is an English version of the book “Nordsjødykkerne”, published in Norwegian in 2009. “On the edge, under water” documents offshore diving and the pioneer divers on the Norwegian continental shelf. Historians Kristin Øye Gjerde and Helge Ryggvik have sought to provide a nuanced and broad-based historical presentation, which carries the … Continue reading Book – On the edge, under water – offshore diving in Norway
Book – Oil and gas Fields in Norway
This book published in 2011 can now be read via the website of the Museum. The book is a result of a project initiated by the Norwegian Petroleum Museum to develop an industrial heritage plan for the offshore petroleum industry in Norway. The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, the Norwegian … Continue reading Book – Oil and gas Fields in Norway
Book – Frigg Industrial Heritage
The book Crossing Boundaries – Frigg Industrial Heritage was launched at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum at the 17th of June 2010. The history of Frigg is a story of crossing boundaries – in more than one sense. This field was the second to be discovered and developed on the Norwegian continental shelf, and extended across the … Continue reading Book – Frigg Industrial Heritage