Teknoteket Makerspace

The Oslo Science Centre/Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology is the largest science centre/museum in Norway with approximately 250,000 visitors a year. In June 2015 Oslo Science Centre/ Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology opened a Makerspace, combining traditional technologies of woodworking, with modern technologies such as of digital fabrication. The museum will have activities for the public on weekends and holidays and school programmes. The visitors should not leave the Makerspace without having created anything physical. It is important that the “iPad generation” growing up today, find joy in creating themselves. Since opening, children have created amazing structures, created inventions with electronics or built imaginative vehicles that can run on a giant racetrack. Anything from hammer and saw on a carpenter’s bench, soldering irons, innovative electronic kits, 3D printers and laser cutters are used. Anything from hammer and saw on a carpenter’s bench, soldering irons, innovative electronic kits, 3D printers and laser cutters are used