av Paal Leveraas | jan 8, 2026 | Heritage, Museums and Landmarks, History of Norway, Oslo
The history of Villa Grande is not a footnote to Norwegian history. It is a condensed version of it. In his lecture, historian Carl Emil Vogt traces how one building moved through radically different political, moral, and social regimes—and how those shifts reveal...
av Paal Leveraas | jan 8, 2026 | History of Norway, History of Oslo, Oslo
In the interwar years, Oslo was not merely a capital city. It was a political landscape, shaped and contested street by street. Fascism and antifascism in Norway did not unfold only in parliament or in newspapers, but in cafés, tenement stairwells, school gyms,...