The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research is a research institute

Research institute

A research institute is an establishment endowed for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research...

 based in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway.

It was created in 1994 as a split from the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

The Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage is a government agency responsible for the management of cultural heritage in Norway. Subordinate the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, it manages the Cultural Heritage Act of June 9, 1978....

. It shared board of directors with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research until 1 January 2003.

It has regional offices in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

 and Tønsberg

Tønsberg

is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around north-east of Sandefjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg....

. It consists of four research departments; archaeology, conservation, buildings and landscape. The chair

Chair (official)

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 is Knut Grøholt

Knut Grøholt

Knut Grøholt is a Norwegian civil servant.He was born in Oslo, was educated with the siv.øk. degree and later took the Ph.D. degree. He was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Labour in 1973, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1985...

, deputy chair is Elisabeth Platou, and board members are Arvid Blindheim, Else Grete Broderstad, Hans Jacob Hansteen

Hans Jacob Hansteen

Hans Jacob Hansteen is a Norwegian architect.Born in Stavanger, he graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1961 and worked as a professor there from 1977 to 1995. From 1993 to 2003 he was chief inspector of historic buildings in Oslo. He is a board member of the Norwegian Institute...

, Anna Helena Petersén and Ole Risbøl. The current director general is Carsten Paludan-Müller.