Want byuniversitet on Tullinløkka – NRK

It was Statsbygg main recommendation when the Monday put forward various possible options for the use of Tullinløkka and the National Gallery.

– The idea is that the National Gallery will be converted into lecture halls or classrooms, but it should be used to public-oriented culture, says CEO of public Construction, Harald Nikolaisen, told NRK.

He believes the recommendation will create great social debate.

– This will create a center where the University gets a strong bycampus with student activities, in addition to that we get overall culture of Museum of Cultural History on both sides of Tullinløkka, he said.

Want new parks with restaurants

When the National Museum moved to Western Railway in 2019, this recommendations of what the area can be used to:

• Historical Museum using National Gallery as an exhibition space for including church art from medieval and classical archeology.
• A new student for the Norwegian Stud Ender Society and Student Life in Oslo is established in St. Olav’s gate 32.
• the outdoor areas for Academy Hagen and Tullinløkka being upgraded to reserve spaces and attractive outdoor spaces where the buildings open towards the space with restaurants and entrances from Tullinløkka.

– the outdoor area will be used to make city life. By turning both entrances to the Museum of Cultural History and the National Gallery into the space, then it will create great opportunities for a vibrant urban space, explains Nikolaisen.

Many input

The study has been ongoing since the start of 2015 and has been led by Statsbygg.

Local Government and Modernisation Minister Jan Tore Sanner describes the outcome is interesting.

– I am absolutely confident that this report will be discussed. Now there are concrete proposals on the table, and we should see the quality controlled. This is an important area of ​​the city, and Statsbygg has pointed out many interesting ways of how it can be used further, he said.

More than 40 stakeholders have provided input and views. In the final phase, it is considered five options for the area, which includes the National Gallery, Tullinløkka, Museum of Cultural History, Academy Hagen and Norway’s geographical surveying.

A of the recommendations is that the Historical Museum can use the National Gallery for exhibitions.

Photo: Andersen, Aleksander / NTB scanpix