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Norwegian Folk and Popular Song Archives
Norsk visearkiv
Street address: Henrik Ibsensgate 110, N-0203 Oslo, Norway
Mailing address: Postboks 2674, Solli, N-0203 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: 47 2327 6340
E-mail: info@visearkivet.no
Website: http://www.visearkivet.no/
Contact: Velle Espeland Director
Opening hours: May-Sep: 9am-2.45pm Mon-Fri, closed Sat-Sun; Oct-Apr: 9am-3.30pm Mon-Fri, closed Sat-Sun
 The Norwegian Folk and Popular Song Archive was founded in 1983 as a national collection of books of popular and folk songs, manuscripts, collections of published and unpublished sound recordings, recordings of concerts and popular theatre and various posters. The archive is, together with the Norwegian heritage collection, responsible for a database comprising all Norwegian text and melody scores from the medieval period.The Archives share premises with the Music Information Centre, the Norwegian Jazz Archives (NJA) and the National Library of Norway’s National Music Collection at the Solli Plass, Oslo.
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