Ethnographic Multimedia Archive
Images and other material from fieldwork by Norwegian anthropologists. The project is awaiting final legal clarifications before the images are published.
Image archive from The Norwegian Institute in Rome
The photo archive was established in 1963 and is based on the research of the institute's founder, Hans Peter L'Orange. The 6,000 photographs span art and architecture from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The core of the collection are photos taken by L'Orange, Hjalmar Torp and Ejnar Dyggve in the 1930s and 1950s.
To see the digitized images that are openly available in Alvin, you must select "See specifically described parts" under "Related records in Alvin". Then go to "Free online" under "Refine search result" on the left of the page
The Observatory Collections
The University of Oslo has several collections related to Christopher Hansteen and the Observatory he founded.
A separate project has been started to catalogue and digitise the archives of Professor Christopher Hansteen and the Observatory. The project period is October 2023 – December 2024. The archives are continuously catalogued and digitised in the cultural heritage platform Alvin.
Hansteen's scientific letter collection
The collection of letters was partially digitised in a previous project in 2005 and will now be reviewed again and supplemented. See the links below for search options.
Online exhibition with bibliographies (2005)
Pamphlets from the English Civil War
A collection of pamphlets from the English Civil War, a series of armed conflicts in England between 1642 and 1651.
The Papyrus Collection
Educational tests and intelligence tests
Historical material related to educational testing and intelligence testing from the 1920s to the 2000s. The material was found in and around the basement of Helga Eng's house at the University of Oslo, and is divided into three parts:
- Objects and archives that belong to and were used by the previous Institute of Education (PFI), and today's Department of Education (IPED). The objects and paper materials were probably available to staff and students at the institute, and likely had a central place in the test courses 1950-2000.
- Archives formed by people who worked at the department, containing historical material that has been deemed worth preserving in the faculty's basement.
- Archive and literature material from other organisations that were found in the basement, and which are connected to the institute in one way or another.
The collection is part of the project Historicizing educational testing, an archiving project at the Department of Education at UiO. It aims to organise, catalogue and make available instruments, tests, publications and archives stored in the basement of the Faculty of Education, which can be linked to the rise of standardised tests, intelligence tests, tests and examinations in Norway from 1900 to the present day.
The project is a collaboration between the Museum for University and Science History (MUV), the Faculty of Education, the research project Transnational Trends and Contesting Concepts for Measuring Merit in the Nordic Countries, and the project Special Collections and Databases at the University Library, UiO.
Navigate the archive's hierarchy in the left margin of the Alvin page in the link below, or select "See specifically described parts" under "Related records in Alvin". From here you can filter records with digitized files that are freely available, by selecting "Free online" under "Refine search result" on the left of the page.