The Royal Meus

This thesis aims to discuss the challenges concerning the Royal Treasury. To my knowledge the collection is estimated to contain more than 100 000 artefacts including jewellery, cars, textiles, horse carriages, paintings, photography and everything in between. The artefacts are currently situated in bunkers around Oslo and some of them are sadly in very bad condition. Until today the Royal Family and the government hasn’t been able to agree upon how to restore the objects, where to put it, and who is responsible for what.

Therefore this thesis wanted to highlight the problem by designing a place for restoration, storage and exhibiting this enormous collection, giving people the opportunity to study a valuable part of Norwegian and Nordic heritage.

The project is situated in the Royal Park, right next to the castle. By doing so the collection is close to its historic context, it is close to the Royal Administration and it will be a natural museum and information node in a postmonarkistic scenario as well as today.