Wikipedia:GLAM/Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

Norsk Folkemuseum

The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum) in Oslo, also known popularly as the Norwegian Outdoor Museum, hosts their first ever Wikipedian in Residence since March 9, 2011.

The engineer and ethnologist Jon Birger Östby is a retired GLAM Director of Norway, and a long-time professional in conservation, ethnology and folkloristics. Mr Östby is attached to Norway's largest museum / collection of folkloristic and cultural objects and buildings, including both vast indoor collections and an outdoor landscape and dwellings museum.

There are approx. 155.000 objects, and 155 historic buildings at display.


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