We are closed for refurbishment

The Nobel Peace Center is rebuilding to create a better, more accessible museum for our visitors. The center, which is located in an old train station from 1872, will be modernised with a new museum shop, event space and pop-up gallery.

«We are looking forward to welcoming the public in more modern and open facilities. With inspiration from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates and the importance of dialogue, we will offer new spaces for exhibitions, events, education and film screenings, the Nobel Peace Center’s Executive Director Kjersti Fløgstad said.

Pop-up and shop

On the south wing we are building an updated Nobel Peace Shop and a pop-up gallery. In this gallery we invite the local community to contribute to ideas on how to use the space. The pop-up gallery will be finished this spring. Please contact us if you have any ideas!

Where the Nobel Peace Shop has been located, we will create our brand new event-room which will welcome students and school groups and work as a perfect space for events and venue hire.

In addition we are refurbishing the reception as well as visitor-areas on the second floor, while also adding necessary upgrades to our building from 1872.

Exhibition in the City Hall

The construction work starts in January and the Center will be closed to the public through March. From 14 January to 10 April, the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition will be on show in the Oslo City Hall. The exhibition has been showing at the Nobel Peace Center since 11 December and tells the story about the latest Nobel Peace Prize laureates Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties.

«We are very grateful to the Municipality of Oslo for letting us show the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition in the same room as the Peace Prize Ceremony is held. Here, we will also receive school groups and offer guided tours during weekends. I am sure this will be a very nice offer to the public while the museum is closed”, Fløgstad said.

The exhibition in the City Hall will be free of charge and open every day from 09:00-16:00 until 10 April. A digital version of the exhibition is also available on the Nobel Peace Center’s website.