Institution code UiO
University of Oslo (UiO)
Description
The University of Oslo was founded in 1811 as the first in Norway. Located mainly on Blindern Campus in the northern part of Oslo, UiO has eight faculties: Faculty of Medicine; Faculty of Dentistry; Faculty of Law; Faculty of Theology; Faculty of Humanities; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Faculty of Social Sciences; Faculty of Education Sciences. The capital university is also home to the Viking Ship Museum, the Historical Museum, and the Natural History Museum, a Main Library with 3.6 million holdings and a wide range of associated units and centres. All groups
- Code
- UiO
- Number of specimens in institution
- 5,736,396
- Online Catalog/Database
- Institutional disciplines
- Biological
- Founding date
- 1811
- Institution Type
- UniversityCollege
Contacts
- Phone number
- Country
- Norway
- City/Town
- Oslo
- Postal/Zip Code
- 0562
- Address
- Sars gate 1
- Mailing address
- Country
- Norway
- City/Town
- Oslo
- Postal/Zip Code
- 0318
- Address
- Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172, Blindern
BS
Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle
Museum Director
Hd
Hugo de Boer
Research Director
MB
Mika Bendiksby
Curator of Fungi
CB
Charlotte Sletten Bjorå
Curator of Phanerogams
RH
Rune Halvorsen
Curator of Bryophytes
KB
Katriina Bendiksen
Senior engineer
ET
Einar Timdal
Curator of Lichens
Identifiers
- Code
- UiO
- Alternative codes
- NHMOCode from replaced entity ffe44856-4ea4-4443-ab9f-4b3c7581b2bb
- grid.5510.1Grid
- 0000 0004 1936 8921ISNI
- 01xtthb56ROR
- University of Oslo, Natural History MuseumCode used in iBOL
- OCode from replaced entity 2e961f1c-399e-4aab-92ea-0657722f8dcd
- Additional names
- Herbarium
- UiO Natural History Museum
- Universitetet i Oslo
- Identifiers
- Identifier used by GBIFa9ab29d6-f380-4193-967f-15a64abc09e7
Entry created: May 21, 2013
Last modified: February 05, 2025
Modified by: dag.endresen