Ishavsmuseet with exciting collaboration with Svalbard Museum.

During a successful polar evening at the Ishavsmuseet on Friday, November 2, which focused on the 50th anniversary of the Kings Bay accident in 1962, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen and the Ishavsmuseet in Brandal.

The Ishavsmuseet has long had a clear intention to elevate the Ishavsmuseet to an even higher and broader level, both professionally and in terms of expertise, and it is important for the Ishavsmuseet to emerge as a central player among the polar collections in Norway.

Ishavsmuseet Aarvak sees this as important museum work, where communication, history, and collaboration will be the focus. This is museum communication and museum work at its very best!  

This agreement strengthens the ties between these two museums, and will help develop museums in a common strategy where it is necessary for management, research, dissemination and renewal.

Furthermore, we will collaborate in and develop the professional network, strengthen expertise and exchange information between the two museums.

It is also important to strengthen the historical documentation base and strengthen ties between the polar museums in Norway.

Ishavsmuseet Aarvak is very pleased with this agreement, which will help to establish the plans and goals that the museum in Brandal has had over time to become an even more central player in polar Norway.

This agreement also confirms the museum's basic idea of ​​communicating our important polar history, and that we have a strong focus on this.

Together with our previously established collaboration with the Fram Museum in Oslo and Pier 21 in Canada, we are confident that this will develop our museum, increase interest in our history and strengthen the closeness to our recent polar history.

It raises the status of the Ishavsmuseet to new heights. And we are certain that this will make us stronger in our efforts to achieve the status that the Ishavsmuseet deserves.

And not least, it gives us expertise, deeper knowledge, and much more empathy, understanding, and cooperation in our museum work than we could have gained in any other consolidation.

This is a big day for us at the Ishavsmuseet, and we would like to thank the Svalbard Museum, led by Tora Hultgren, for this. Once we have gradually coordinated, much good will come out of both this cooperation agreement and the two previously signed agreements. The Polar Cooperation currently consists of the Fram Museum, Pier 21, Svalbard Museum and the Ishavsmuseet Aarvak.