The Municipality of Oslo offers many different activities for children and young people during the holidays. Here you will find an overview of the offers.
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– I am proud that the Municipality of Oslo provides such a wide range of services for children and young people during the summer. Summer holidays can be long and demanding if you have nothing to do. That's why it's important that we offer exciting summer activities where children and young people have fond memories of their holidays in a safe environment, says Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll, City Councilor for Education and Knowledge.
“It is fantastic that every summer the municipality helps thousands of young people find a job. Vacation and vacation jobs are arenas of coping and learning where young people are given responsibility and learn to take responsibility. Young people gain experience of the expectations, demands and rights of working life, which they can take with them when they later look for a job, says Usman Mushtaq, city councilor for jobs, inclusion and social services.
“We have seen that free sports holidays attract many children who would otherwise not take part in sports activities. When it's free, low-threshold and fun-based, run by young people that kids look up to, you can turn on more people. And it pays off long after the holidays – many children sign up for the club for the rest of the year. Summer sports gave a real recruitment impulse - it is needed! This is Omar Samy Gamal, City Councilor for Culture, Sport and Volunteering.
Summer school
Summer School Oslo is a free offer for children and teenagers in Oslo. The courses are adapted to all levels of the year, from 1st to 10th grade and for upper secondary students. The courses take place in the first and last two weeks of school holidays and cover the offer for almost 19 children and teenagers. There are still places available for some courses in week 000.
More about the Summer School hereii on sommerskolen.no
Jobs for young people this summer
This summer, all districts have jobs for young people. The offer is very popular, and about 3000 jobs will be created this summer (4000 in total during the year). Most of the young people are of middle school and high school age. Some are also a bit older. Young people work for 2-3 weeks.
The application deadlines for summer jobs have passed, but some neighborhoods offer part-time jobs and summer jobs all year round.
Contact your district for more information on youth work.
Leisure clubs
During the school holidays, most districts close their leisure clubs, offering instead numerous and varied holiday activities for the children and youth of the district. These can be tours and experiences, barbecues, water parks, dandelions, a climbing park and much more. Some require registration, others do not. The vast majority of activities are completely free.
summer sports
Sports teams across the city will have plenty of activities during the summer months. During four weeks they will organize a series of interesting activities for children and teenagers aged 6-19. There are low participation costs and no sports team membership requirement. Sports teams will also provide swimming lessons to as many as 4500 children in the summer.
Read more about the summer sports offers in your area and register here.
Summer offers in the district
The districts organize many interesting activities for children and teenagers this summer.
Check the offer in your area here.
Summer activities at Deichman
All libraries are open all summer. Borrowing books is free, as are events and activities at the libraries. There are also several summer libraries of their own.
Deichman Bjørvika organizes a Beach Club every day from June 23 to July 25 with many exciting activities for children.
Follow here for more information on Deichman's summer range.
Popsenteret
Popsenteret has free admission to the museum and studio throughout the school holidays for everyone under 18. A drawing competition for everyone, classes at exhibitions, recording a song in the studio and much more.
At Popsenteret, kids can learn to sing and dance from last year's MGP winner "Give That Wolf a Banana" and create a great stage show. You can take weekly DJing and sampling courses and learn improvisation from the Oslo Oriental Orchestra. FeriePop has both free activities and a program where you need to buy a ticket. 1100 children go bananas for free under the auspices of AKS.
Read more about Popsenteret's summer offer here.
Øvingshotellet
Øvingshotellet offers free rehearsal rooms throughout the school holidays for all under 18s.
Rommen scene
Stage Rommen offers free events for children and families with children this summer:
- Teatr Plenerowy 27/6: "Agents and an extremely dangerous mission"
- Lego days 5/7 and 6/7: The stage room is filled with 250 kg of Lego bricks and we build
- Summer Cinema: The Lego Movie
- Magician Davido will visit us on 7.11 and 8.03
- Circus with flying seagulls 8/8 and 9/8
- There will also be a summer cinema in August
- Read more and register here.
Summer offer of the cultural school
The cultural school has dance courses, art workshops and a separate summer school offer called Art Camp. There, participants can choose a course they attend throughout the week. There are different courses that run concurrently, which means several children can go together but choose slightly different activities.
There are still a few vacancies.
Munch Museum
The Munch Museum is free for children and teenagers. For adults, admission is also free on Wednesdays after 18:00. There are many things to experience with children in the museum. On June 24, Munch Ung celebrates the arrival of summer.
Read about the Munch Museum's summer offer here.
Summer at the Vigeland Museum
The Vigelandsmuseet offers free entry for everyone under 18 and lots of activities for young and old. The museum hosts free family workshops in parts of July and publishes a free activity booklet for families who visit.
Vigelandsmuseet also runs free art workshops in partnership with Kulturskolen, but these courses are now full.
Read more about the offer for the Vigelands Museum here.
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Source: Municipality of Oslo
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