Oslo Holocaust Museum

Holocaust Centre at Villa Grande, Oslo - darkometer rating : 5 - A stately mansion in Oslo , Norway , that during WWII was the residence of Vidkun Quisling, the head of the collaborationist puppet regime in the years of Norway's occupation by Nazi Germany . Today, the building houses a research and education centre with a special focus on the Holocaust . Its permanent exhibition on the topic is thus one of Oslo's darkest offerings, well worth checking out for this website too. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: For general topical background info see also under Holocaust , and cf. Falstad Centre , Norway , Bergen Resistance Museum , and the relevant entries in the glossary as well as various entries under Germany , Poland , etc. Here's a bit of specific background information on this particular site: The full official name of the institution is "HL-senteret – Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities", which already indicates that its mission is kind of twofold. For our purposes it is of course the first one, the coverage of Holocaust studies, that is of greater relevance. The centre's permanent exhibition is described in detail in the following section . Another crucial argument for including the HL Centre in these pages is its location: the centre is housed in what used to be Quisling's residence! It is called Villa Grande and it is indeed grand, though in the sort of Nordic restrained way of the early 20th century. Construction of the edifice was begun in 1917.