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21-04-2008

A digital university museum to be opened in Norway

The report to the Storting ’Tingenes tale’ (’The Language of Things’) from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research goes in for the task of stimulating the research and promotional activities in the five university museums in Norway. One of the measures is the opening of a digital university museum.

Scholars, the general public and pupils should be able to make the best use of the information accumulated in the collections of the university museums, therefore a national digital university museum (NDU) that contains material from the five university museums and the Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger, will be established. A special focus will be given to promotional activities.

A measure that would stimulate the promotional activities could be the effect of the number of visits by school classes on the amount of subsidies received by the institution in question. The five university museums are: the Bergen Museum of Art & Science, the Tromsø Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo and the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim.

Edited by Kirsten Verling kirsten.verling@abm-utvikling.no

Ny rolle for universitetsmuseene (A new role for the university museums, in Norwegian)  

“Tingenes tale”(’The Language of Things’ Report to the Storting No.15, 2007-2008, in Norwegian)