Oslo Pin Club (OPC) is a non-profit organisation founded on February 24th, 1992 with the intention of providing a place for collectors of Olympic memorabilia to exchange information. Since the club’s foundation, many collectors have included non-Olympic sports areas and items.

One of our goals is to stimulate our members to collect for the pleasure of collecting and not just for a short term financial gain.

Furthermore the club will promote the interests of the pincollectors above those of the dealers and sports organisations and function as a contact point for collectors, and also arrange gatherings.

The club constantly works towards clearing the market of fake and unauthorised or stolen pins and memorabilia.

As a member of the IOC’s memorabilia federation, FIMO, OPC will lead the way in expanding the collectors’ interests further and work for our members to participate in the collecting of memorabilia from future Olympics and other major sporting events.

OPC arranges 10-11 meetings per year for members and other collectors. At these meetings the collectors can enjoy the company of like minded people, and therefore better maintain the joy of collecting, you can socialise with other collectors, establish good connections, and of course exchange pins and memorabilia, either by trading or by buying and selling.

Non members are encouraged to attend one of our membership meetings to see if membership of OPC is something for you. Click on the link “Become member now” for more details on membership.

In advance of each membership meeting, members will receive, by email, details of the meeting, news about the club, pins and items of interest to collectors.

The club makes a new membership pin every year which is given to members free of charge.

In 2002, on behalf of the Mayor of Oslo, the club hosted an international collector’s exhibition in the city hall, in connection with the 50 years celebration of the Winter Olympic games of 1952 in Oslo.

The IOC wants two collectors’ fayres held each year, one summer, one winter, and wished the winter fayre to be held in Lillehammer. For the past few years OPC has been the organizer.

OPC celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2007.

In 2007 the Winter Fair will be held in October in the Vikingship at Hamar together with the Used and Antiques Fair. This will be a very interesting and attractive event for collectors because the audience is expected to be about 5,000 per day.