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The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (Norwegian: Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning, NIKU) is a cultural heritage research institute based in Oslo, Norway.
The institute has nearly 80 employees and regional offices in Bergen, Trondheim, Tønsberg and Tromsø. Following a restructuring in 2014 it consists of 7 research departments:
The chair is Knut Grøholt and the deputy chair is Berit Skarholt. The current director general is Carsten Paludan-Müller.
NIKU was created in 1994 as a split from the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. From 1994 to 2003, the institute shared board of directors with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research under the moniker NINA•NIKU.
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Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA