The winners of the Thor Heyerdahl Scholarship 2019 have been elected! It was many high quality contributions that were submitted this year and where most of the contributions went under the genre of film and animation. This led to this year's scholarship being divided...

Seminar in Andora 2019 In connection with the friendship-city agreement that was entered a few months ago between the municipalities of Andora and Larvik, the institute and several politicians from Larvik visited Andora in Liguria on 30 May - 3 June. The program...

Lecture by Henrik Syse. May 8th in Thor Heyerdahls childhood home. The lecture will be held in Norwegian.

April 10th we witnessed a fantastic concert held by the winners of the 2018 T.O.S.C.A opera competition. In cooperation with the Italian Institute of Culture in Oslo The Thor Heyerdahl Institute organised the successful event joining important friendships and beautiful music. We especially want to thank the extraordinarily skilled singers and their artistic leader Massimiliano Viapiano for letting us experience and enjoy this very enchanting evening.

Great reception at Larvik Church yesterday! The winners of the Italian T.O.S.C.A opera competition delivered a magical experience in a full church accompanied by the local Larvik choir Tjølling Sangforening.Here is an article about the concert published in...

In collaboration with the Czech Embassy, we were fortunate to meet the engineer and archaeologist Pavel Pavel. Pavel participated on Thor Heyerdahl's second expedition to Easter Island in 1986. The aim of the expedition was to figure out how the Moai statues had...

On Wednesday 17th of October, we had a visit from a delegation from Andora in connection with the celebration of the twinning township between Larvik, Norway and Andora, Italy (2018) in Thor Heyerdahl's childhood home. Here are the pictures.   

Many attended the Thor Heyerdahl Concert at Larvik Church on the 17th April. In collaboration with Larvik municipality, The Thor Heyerdahl Institute presented an evening with the winners of the opera contest T.O.S.C.A 2017. The choir ‘Tjølling Sangforening’...

In collaboration with IIC, The Thor Heyerdahl Institute presented an evening with the winners of the opera contest T.O.S.C.A 2017 in Oslo on 18th April. The concert was held at the Italian Institute of Culture. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute is very pleased with the...

The Thor Heyerdahl Institute wishes all its friends a Happy New Year! We look back on an exciting and eventful 2017.