The Crown Princess looking forward to reading a lot of books this summer
Princess Mette-Marit won’t “sleep away the summer night”, as the old Norwegian song goes.Instead she will spend the summer nights reading. This week she will…
Culture
Ekstremsportveko 2016
Ekstremsportveko is the largest sport and music festival of its kind, and is hosted every year in Voss, Western Norway. We host competitions in kayaking,…
Midsummer celebrations in Oslo 23 June
Oslo will be celebrating Midsummer’s Eve in style with bonfires, good food and live music along the fjord from Høvikodden west of town to Hvervenbukta…
Arctic Arts Festival Harstad 18–25 June 2016
The Arctic Arts Festival has great faith in arts from the north! The festival is an Arctic event with ambitions of becoming the world´s most…
Crown Princess opened Petter Dass festival: – A great experience
Crown Princess Mette-Marit gave a speech during Thursday’s opening of the Petter Dass festival in Alstahaug. – I have been looking very much forward to finally…
20 kroner coin to mark Norges Bank’s 200th Anniversary
A 20 kroner coin depicting a graph that bears the name Norgespulsen, was released on Tuesday to mark Norges Bank’s 200 year celebration. King Harald…
Iron Maiden has arrived in Norway
The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden arrived Oslo Airport Monday afternoon on flight number ABD666. It is the first time a privately owned plane…
Sensational historic grave in Kristiansand
The tomb of General Frederick Dietrichson, who led the military forces under the Lofthuus uprising in 1787, was found at the market square in Kristiansand….
Palace Part is opening the historic anniversary park
The palace surrounding has been the arena for important occasion in Norwegian history. There will be a major arrangement for this summer’s program in the…
Noah’s Ark damaged in collision at Oslo harbor
The well-known exhibition ship Noah’s ark has been heavily damaged after it crashed into a coast guard ship docked in Oslo. The starboard(front right side)…
The Silver Jubilee Park opens 13 June
The 25th anniversary of HM King Harald V and Queen Sonja’s ascension to the Norwegian throne is being celebrated this summer in the Royal Palace…
Archeologists have found the skull of Birkebeiner who died in 1197
The skeleton and skull of a dead Birkebeiner has been found during the excavation of a well at Sverresborg in Trondheim. According to Kong Sverre’s…
Furuholmen with sculpture park at Fornebu
Scandinavia’s biggest ceramic sculpture park, created by Magne Furuholmen, has opened at Fornebu. Queen Sonja performed the opening on Thursday. The park has the largest…
New record year for Bergen International Festival
122,000 people visited this year’s Bergen International Festival, 17 percent more than last year, which was was also a record year. – We hardly believed…
Kjetil Tasker awarded King Olav V’s Cancer Research Award
On Monday, King Harald handed over the King Olav V’s Cancer Research Award 2016 to Professor Kjetil Tasker at the University of Oslo for his…
The Crown Prince couple celebrated Grimstad’s 200th anniversary
Crown Prince Haakon and Mette-Marit planted a tree outside the Ibsen house and met both the youngest and oldest citizens in Grimstad when they took…
Exhibition by Queen Sonja opened in Sarpsborg
On Saturday Queen Sonja was attending the opening of an exhibition which she has contributed to in Soli Brug in Sarpsborg. An entire 70 works of…
The King and Queen gets new outdoor stage at Oscarshall for their anniversary
On Friday Parliamentary President olemic thommessen presented the new outdoor stage at Oscarshall Bygdøy to the press. The scene is a gift for the royal…
Vebjørn Sand opens da Vinci bridge in the artist’s garden in France
Artist Vebjørn Sand has made six Leonardo bridges. The last in the series opens on Friday in the artist and Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci’s…
The majority use the library for other things than borrowing books
Well over half of those who use the main libraries in major cities, are there to do other things than to borrow or return books…