Olaus Islandsmoen
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Olaus Islandsmoen was a Norwegian educator, museologist
Museology
Museology is the diachronic study of museums and how they have established and developed in their role as an educational mechanism under social and political pressures.-Overview:...

 and politician.

He was headmaster at Vestoppland Folk High School from 1906 to 1939. He was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1916 to 1918. He was a chairman of Noregs Mållag
Noregs Mållag
Noregs Mållag is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk , one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language struggle, it advocates the use of Nynorsk...

 from 1917 to 1921. He co-founded of the organization Norske Museers Landsforbund, a forerunner of Norges Museumsforbund, in 1918. In the 1930s he was a member of the council of Norges Forsvarsforening.
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