Intercultural Museum

The Intercultural Museum in Oslo is located in the Grønland neighborhood and is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of immigration to Norway. The building is a former police station, constructed between 1900 and 1902 to designs by the architect Balthazar Lange. The institution was founded in 1990 by Bente Guro Møller in response to the mass migration that began in the 1970s, in particular by Pakistani workers. Since 2006, the museum has been part of the Oslo Museums, and in 2006 it was named Museum of the Year by the Norwegian Museum Association. You can visit the main exhibitions and the contemporary art gallery, and admission is free for visitors under 26. The museum also offers guided tours of Grønland, a historically significant neighborhood that is now strongly multicultural.