Nobel Peace Center is located in the very heart of Oslo, in the former Vestbanen railway station and is a new center opened in 2005. It is the perfect place where the visitors can learn and experience about the Nobel Prize Laureats, about their activities and their life. Once there you can also learn about Arthur Nobel’s activity and history. Using modern technology, the center provides with meeting places or voice methods, exhibits about war, peace, or conflict resolution. Nobel Peace Center is combining the exhibits, films with digital communication to offer to clients the best methods to learn about the Laureats activity. Some famous artists, like the British architect David Adjaye, the American designer David Small and other more, offered a great contribution to the place, to transform it into an exciting and fascinating place, attracting visitors in Oslo. The center offers a great opportunity to see the most changing and unique exhibitions, promoting the popular interest related to different themes. The Peace Prize Laureats are all included in the list of the center, presented on digital screens, displayed in the Nobel Field, representing a garden of about 1000 fibre-optic lights. Within the center are organized important events, including lectures, discussions, seminars, meetings, and a wide range of cultural activities.
A Gateway to high-technology
This center is using a high technology, and includes an electronic newpaper that offers informations about all the Nobel Peace winners and about their excellent work. The center houses a virtual book which relates about Alfred Nobel’s life and work, the last winners of the Nopel Peace Prize are included in the Passage of Honor. It is opened to the public, offering interesting informations with the most small detailes, being a charming place where you can spend a lovely time.
Spectacular design
The incredible design of the center was made by David Adjaye, which made it in a perfect museum of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureats, reflecting the great idea of making peace in the whole world. This famous designer trasformed the structure next to railway stations in a very pretty must see place. tThe first thing that will fascinate you is the Italian façade of the old building, it is like a rectangular metal box. The holes of the structure appear as a map of the world, organized with different scenes of conflict. Just inside of the center you can feel another idea, the holes relate you a different history. The architect of the building is a romantic one, who loved creativity, spectacle, that why the reception and the shop is colored in a red shade, offering an fantastic view over the surroundings. On the ground floor is situated the restaurant, named “Café de la Paix”, and is a very familiar area, where the visitors can spend the time in a very peaceful ambiance. The other person who designed the center is David Small, a great technologist who transformed the place in a high and modern technologist center. Small is well known and appreciated for the creation of the virtual book of Arthur Nobel, that is like real book, but the informations and the images are all electronic, when you touch to turn the pages, they change and provide with more and more information.
Nobel Peace Center is a precious gateway to the technology based on reality, that offers the possibility to explore the life and the exceptional works of the best artists who won the Nobel Prize. Do not miss the opportunity to explore this important destination, while in Oslo, because it will fascinate you through its majestic displays. The seminars and the meetings that are organized there open a great view over the history of the past, discussing about war, peace, and conflicts. Here the visitors can find the answer to their questions related to the Laureats and their life. This structure is the ideal area for recreation and entertainment either, where they can spend an interesting time.
By Eugenia Cvasov
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