Bar / pub venue
6 hireable spaces
Alternative
Electronic
Comedy
Kulturhuset
A bar, café and event house over three floors on Youngs gate in central Oslo, with more than 2,000 m2 of rooms — Hovedrommet for 350, Boksen and Laboratoriet for 120 each, a library, a greenhouse and a games bar. Concerts, quizzes, lectures, theatre and stand-up run through the week; 20 years and over throughout.
About this venue
Kulturhuset sits at Youngs gate 6 in Oslo, in the middle of the city's densest cultural quarter, and works as bar, café, workspace and event house at once. It spreads over three floors and more than 2,000 m2, each level with its own bar and its own character — Biblioteket with its shelves, Drivhuset the greenhouse, Spillbaren the games bar — plus a small enclosed backyard. The programme runs through the week: quizzes, lectures, seminars, concerts, theatre, stand-up and exhibitions, with DJs at weekends. There is a 20-year age limit throughout the building.
Hovedrommet is the main room, 350 standing or 180 seated, with a stage about 5 x 4 m that can be extended to 6 x 4 m, a professional sound and lighting rig and a view onto the courtyard. Boksen has considerable ceiling height and takes 120 standing or 90 seated with a rig on a par with the main room, suiting conferences, launches, exhibitions, concerts and screenings. Laboratoriet holds the same numbers and has the house's largest projection screen, used for concerts, listening sessions, performances, debates and film. None of these three is let on weekend evenings.
Spillbaren can be divided into smaller sections and has seating, a stage, projectors and its own bar, which makes it the room for birthdays, private bookings, small concerts and book launches. Det hemmelige rommet, tucked inside the library on the second floor, is a meeting room for a handful of people with a whiteboard, screen and projector.
The house is open Tuesday to Thursday 10:00-22:00 and Friday and Saturday 10:00-03:00, closed Sunday and Monday, with the café running 10:00-17:00 Tuesday to Saturday. Table reservations go to bord@kulturhusetioslo.no and event bookings to book@kulturhusetioslo.no.