Research discoveries, newly found works, and the ongoing investigation into the life of Oskar J. W. Hansen.
After years of delays and our Save the Star Map campaign, the Hoover Dam Star Map restoration is finally complete. Here's the full story of what happened.
Read article →Oskar J. W. Hansen's lost Wings II sculpture has been found in Richmond.
Read article →Alex Hansen died on January 14, 2025. He was 82 years old. Alex was the youngest of Oskar Hansen’s six children—born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the spring of 1942 to…
Read article →Hear the recently-discovered, long-lost recording of Oskar J. W. Hansen’s mysterious Moon landing TV interview recently unearthed in the United States Navy’s archives.
Read article →Oskar J. W. Hansen's scientific theories about WMDs and planetary weapons are strangely on file in the U.S. Navy archives.
Read article →After being lost for over 90 years, Oskar J. W. Hansen's first sculpture, his Head of Christ from 1906, has been found in Montana.
Read article →Restoration of the Hoover Dam Star Map terrazzo masterpiece remains delayed almost three years after the start of the project.
Read article →The Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA) recently published a cover story about our Oskar J. W. Hansen research.
Read article →This is the second half of Oskar J. W. Hansen’s ancient Viking Island story. In the first half, I told the story of Oskar’s childhood adventure, where he discovered buried…
Read article →Oskar J. W. Hansen is most famous for his monumental artwork at Hoover Dam in the 1930s and the Yorktown Victory Monument in the 1950s. But beyond the story of…
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