https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norway’s National Museum has preserved some of the country’s most treasured artefacts digitally and stored them in a former mine on Arctic archipelago Svalbard. https://www.thelocal.no/20201111/norway-digitally-freezes-national-treasures-and-stores-them-in-arctic-archive Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:58:39 +0100 norway-digitally-freezes-national-treasures-and-stores-them-in-arctic-archive Norway agreed on Thursday to hand back thousands of artefacts removed from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s. https://www.thelocal.no/20190330/norways-kon-tiki-museum-agrees-to-return-easter-island-items Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:44:57 +0100 norways-kon-tiki-museum-agrees-to-return-easter-island-items In December 1941, Norwegian resistance commandos took part in a raid on the small port of Måløy. Now a group of enthusiasts has opened an interactive museum at the site. https://www.thelocal.no/20180823/museum-celebrates-daring-ww2-raid-on-norway-island Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:54:42 +0200 museum-celebrates-daring-ww2-raid-on-norway-island A fourth man has now been arrested in connection with the theft of 400 Viking treasures from the University Museum of Bergen, which is now returning the objects to their displays. https://www.thelocal.no/20171110/viking-treasures-returned-to-norwegian-museum Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:54:16 +0100 viking-treasures-returned-to-norwegian-museum Two people have been held by police on suspicion of stealing up to 400 Viking objects from the University Museum of Bergen. https://www.thelocal.no/20171109/two-men-arrested-for-norway-viking-museum-heist Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:16:39 +0100 two-men-arrested-for-norway-viking-museum-heist Some 400 Viking objects were stolen from a Norwegian museum at some time over the weekend of August 11th-13th, the museum's director said Sunday, describing the loss as "immeasurable". https://www.thelocal.no/20170821/400-viking-objects-stolen-in-norway-museum-heist Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:38:46 +0200 400-viking-objects-stolen-in-norway-museum-heist Several burglars climbed a scaffold to raid a collection on the seventh story of the University Museum of Bergen. https://www.thelocal.no/20170814/high-value-objects-stolen-from-norway-museum Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:00:32 +0200 high-value-objects-stolen-from-norway-museum Norwegian train company NSB is facing calls to apologise for transporting Norwegian Jews and using prisoners of war during Norway’s occupation by Nazi Germany. https://www.thelocal.no/20150508/norway-rail-company-used-pows-as-forced-labour Fri, 08 May 2015 20:40:17 +0200 norway-rail-company-used-pows-as-forced-labour The city of Oslo said Tuesday it had clinched a deal to build a new museum housing the biggest collection of works by Norwegian expressionist master Edvard Munch, bringing to an end years of political squabbles. https://www.thelocal.no/20130529/oslo-reaches-deal-on-new-munch-museum Wed, 29 May 2013 16:08:59 +0200 oslo-reaches-deal-on-new-munch-museum The city of Oslo on Thursday scrapped plans to move the Munch Museum, which holds the world's largest collection of works by expressionist master Edvard Munch, to a new spot near the new opera house. https://www.thelocal.no/20111110/oslo-scraps-plan-to-move-munch-museum-next-to-opera Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:26:37 +0100 oslo-scraps-plan-to-move-munch-museum-next-to-opera