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the norwegian
telecom museum

The Norwegian Telecom Museum

tells the story of

the development of Norwegian telecommunications
and therefore also the history of our company and
the significance of our company in Norwegian
society over 150 years. The idea of starting up
a separate museum was first put into practice
as early as in 1914, when the first display about
telecommunications history was held during the
Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania (Oslo).

New exhibitions in 2012
There has been a high level of activity at the
Norwegian Telecom Museum in 2012. For the public
this resulted in the museum opening three new
temporary exhibitions in the course of the year.
From 15 March to 12 August the museum hosted
the electroboutique pop-up exhibition. The norsk

The norwegian TeleCom museum is one of The mosT-visiTed museums in norway,
wiTh around 350,000 visiTors in 2012.

design ble svensk eventyr ["Norwegian design
became a Swedish fairytale"] exhibition opened on
19 May to commemorate the 80

anniversary of the

world's first one-piece Bakelite telephone. And on
6 September an exhibition opened which marked the
fact that the red telephone box was also 80 years
old in 2012.

The 1932 Elektrisk Bureau
telephone model.
Photo: The Norwegian Telecom
Museum Cato Normann