The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies hosts a permanent exhibition on the Holocaust and the fate of the Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. The center also shows temporary exhibitions and has an underground bunker which is open to the public.
Visit the center's main exhibition, on the Holocaust and the fate of the Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. Images, sounds, objects and text document the genocide on the European Jews, as well as the mass murder and persecution of other groups and minorities during the era of National Socialism.
This exhibition focuses on everyday racism and rests on the premise that we need to see and understand everyday racism for what it actually is in order to combat it.
Villa Grande hides a historical bunker built for Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian Nazi party National Unity, who lived in the villa during the war with his wife Maria.
In the Memorial Room, all Jews and Romani people from Norway who were killed during the Holocaust are commemorated. Each one is mentioned by name, date of birth, and presumed date of death. The Memorial Room was updated with the names of the Romani people in 2021, and is a part of the center's Holocaust exhibition.
They were all talented artists, but their lives got cut short. The exhibition “Unfinished lives” introduces 15 artists from all across Europe who were murdered during the Holocaust.