Norwegian cultural heritage
Protected heritage sites, cultural environments and museum collections from national sources.
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All lookup operations
Open HTML operations for navigation. The JSON link for each operation is only for programmatic data access.
Building software or a dashboard? List operation names as JSON, then open the selected operation's descriptor before fetching data.
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search_heritage_sites– Search Askeladden, Riksantikvaren's national database of cultural heritage sites (~630,000 kulturminner): archaeological sites, protected buildings, churches, wrecks and more.
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get_heritage_site– Full detail for one heritage site (lokalitet) in Askeladden, including all its individual monuments (enkeltminner).
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search_cultural_environments– Search Norway's 654 protected cultural environments: fredete kulturmiljøer (protected under kulturminneloven § 20), UNESCO World Heritage areas (verdensarv), and urban areas of national interest.
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search_museum_objects– Search DigitaltMuseum: 10M+ objects from Norwegian (and Swedish) museum collections - photographs, artifacts, fine art, buildings and more.
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get_museum_object– Full detail for one DigitaltMuseum object.
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list_museums– List the museums and collection owners publishing to DigitaltMuseum.
HTML GET template
Programmatic access
First confirm the operation and parameters in HTML, then use the read-only JSON API.
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How an AI agent should use this page
Ground rule: Navigate with HTML GET links to keep explanations and relationships. Use the page's JSON alternative only when concrete values must be extracted, compared or computed.
How to use Norwegian cultural heritage
Protected heritage sites, cultural environments and museum collections from national sources. Choose a search lookup first when you lack an identifier; use a detail lookup when you already have a stable ID.
- Read requirements, cache time and known usage limits.
- Open the lookup and use the HTML GET template.
- Follow normalized result links onward; use JSON only for structured data work.
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