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Archive and Library of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage
Riksantivarens arkiv. Riksantikvarens bibliotek
Street address: Dronningensgate 13, NO-0152 Oslo, Norway
Mailing address: P O Box 8196 Dep, NO-0034 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: 47 2294 0400
Fax: 47 2294 0404, 47 2294 0406
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.riksantikvaren.no
Proprietor: Ministry of the Environment
Contact: Oddvar Bjørvik Deputy Director General, Head of Department for Information Services
Opening hours: 10am-2pm Wed and Thur (The Archive); 9am-3pm Tue-Thur (The Library)
The Archive of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage is the most extensive collection of original documentation on National Heritage Sites in Norway. The archive comprises approximately 210,000 drawings and sketches dating back to mid 19th century. The photographic collection, dating back to the 1870s, totals 510,000 photos from all around Norway, a slide archive, and the Norwegian Portrait Archive of 12,000 repro-negatives of artistic portraits of Norwegians. The collections furthermore contains a scientific archive, featuring reports, correspondence etc on construction work on national heritage buildings, and various news clippings collected since the 1920s. The Library consists of approx. 55,000 items, concentrating on Norwegian architecture, archaeology, conservation and restoration of buildings, paintings and sculpture, and other topics related to cultural heritage. The library holdings can be found in the database BIBSYS
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