Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum

Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum
Ny-Ålesund By- og Gruvemuseum
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Established1988
LocationNy-Ålesund, Svalbard
Coordinates78°55′31″N 11°55′48″E / 78.9254°N 11.9301°E / 78.9254; 11.9301
OwnerKings Bay AS

The Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum (Norwegian: Ny-Ålesund By- og Gruvemuseum) is a museum located in Ny-Ålesund, a town on Spitsbergen, the central island of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. While some sources claim that the more well known Svalbard Museum holds the position,[1] the museum is the world's northernmost by virtue of Ny-Ålesund's position to the far north of the regional capital Longyearbyen.

Formerly a coal mining settlement until a series of serious accidents (including a final one in 1962) closed down the mine, Ny-Ålesund – which dates back to the first decades of the 20th century – has been a centre of international Arctic and polar research in recent years, housing scientific bases such as the Arctic Yellow River Station and the Himadri Station, belonging to China and India respectively. The area is administrated by Kings Bay, a government-owned company.[2]

The museum is housed in a building constructed in 1917, originally for storage. It was eventually converted into the town store in 1920. The museum was created long afterwards, in 1988, and the building has remained in use as such since. The exterior of the wooden structure has been largely preserved, due to its cultural heritage values.[3] The interior has gone through several redevelopments and improvements. In 2009 a new information centre was opened in the building alongside the museum, providing an introduction to the environmental research going on in the area.[4] In 2011 Kings Bay received significant funds from the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund for a project to modernize the museum and its exhibitions, scheduled for completion in the Summer of 2014.[5] Things featured in the remodelled museum, which is unstaffed for the most part, include exhibits on the history of Ny-Ålesund since the site was first visited in the 1600s, the coal mining industry, the 1962 accident, early aviation on Svalbard, the scientific research carried out in Ny-Ålesund, and the settlement's society and culture.[6]

See also

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References

  1. ^ Hagevik, Ellen Marie (1994). "Svalbard Museum: the world's northernmost museum". Museum International. XLVI (2). Wiley-Blackwell: 37–40. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  2. ^ Haugaard Nielsen, Rolf (2006). Nature and Cultural Environments in the Arctic. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 14. ISBN 928-931-335-8.
  3. ^ "Museet (Butikken)". www.kulturminnesok.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  4. ^ "New information centre in Ny-Ålesund opened today". www.forskningsradet.no. Research Council of Norway. 29 June 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Ny-Ålesund by- og Gruvemuseum". www.sysselmannen.no. Governor of Svalbard. 17 November 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Ny-Ålesund by- og gruvemuseum" (PDF). www.sysselmannen.no (in Norwegian). Governor of Svalbard. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

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