Exhibitions

Seal hunters from Sunnmøre were already on the coast of Greenland and catching seals in 1900. The country had much to offer, and they caught many animals on these trips, which were often an extension of the seal hunt in the Vesterisen, and the summer hunt in the Danish Strait.

The Arctic ship Aarvak, built in Bergen in 1912, is on shore in its own house at the Ishavsmuseet. Aarvak is today the oldest remaining seal hunting ship in Norway of those that were specially built for seal hunting after 1900.

Ragnar Thorseth is an adventurer and expedition leader. He is a journalist and a communicator. And he is a Sunnmøring and a Norwegian. All of this has shaped Ragnar Thorseth into the life and dream that are presented here.

In 1916, Peter S. Brandal received an offer to purchase rights to extract coal in what later became Kings Bay Coal Company in Brandal City, or Ny-Ålesund as the town is called today.