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Bring your mobile phone to the University Museum (15.12.2011)
New, smart mobile phones have now become extremely relevant as knowledge sources at the University Museum of Bergen. You can now get information about the objects and the topics in an exhibition direct to your mobile phone.
Make Christmas Decorations from Winter Greenery (01.12.2011)
The first Fish Atlas of Barents Sea Species (08.11.2011)
The Barents Sea diversity of fish species has now been mapped in a 274-page big fish atlas: Atlas of the Barents Sea Fishes.
Bargain: Promotional Products at Strongly Reduced Prices (24.10.2011)
The recently opened online shop of the University Museum of Bergen now offers shopping bags, umbrellas, mobile phone pouches, notepads, and book markers in our two museum shops at much discounted prices!
Renewed Support to Clarification and Mapping of Norwegian Fauna (20.10.2011)
In the final round for applications, two projects at the University Museum of Bergen were granted support from the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre.
Right on Target – Archaeology Activity Day at the University Museum of Bergen (20.10.2011)
Become an archaeologist for one day. Learn more about life in the Stone Age and the Viking Age. Try being a hunter and forming a phalanx like a real Viking. Next Sunday, the University Museum of Bergen hosts Archaeology Day.
Focus on the Middle Ages (16.09.2011)
This autumn, The Middle Ages are truly at the centre of attention in Bergen. Wednesday 28 September starts the first lecture in a series connected to the exhibition Fragments of the past.
New Shale Area in the Alpine Garden (14.09.2011)
Many alpine plants demand gravel and talus soils where the vegetation cover is open. It is challenging, but essential to mimic their natural habitats if we want to make pioneer plants thrive in the Alpine Garden
Ten million NOK to the Museum Project (09.09.2011)
Minister Tora Aasland handed over 10 million NOK to new infrastructure for the areas surrounding the Museum. Among other things, a greater connection between the new Aula and the Student Centre will be created.
New Nature article: Snails and mussels – close relatives (06.09.2011)
How closely related are molluscs like clams, mussels, and squids, all from our second largest phylum? How did their shell, nervous system, body, and head develop?
Bergen Museum, The Natural History Collections – has been voted Best Museum in Bergen (01.09.2011)
Bergen museum, The Natural History Collections has been voted Best Museum in Bergen in a competition hosted by Bergens Tidende, the major regional newspaper in Western Norway.
Fragments from the Past (25.08.2011)
How did royal power and government apparatus develop in Norway in the Middle Ages? How did new legislation contribute to a state with courts of justice and judicial power?
Economic Plants in Botanical Garden – a multicultural rendez-vous (03.08.2011)
This year, we have a display of special vegetables from Asia and Ancient Rome, and also cereal grains from Afghanistan.
Enjoy our beautiful Collection of Summer Flowers (30.06.2011)
A sure sign of summer is the sight of summer flowers in the Botanical Garden at Milde. The finishing stage of the out planting is now around the corner.
Enjoy our beautiful Collection of Summer Flowers (30.06.2011)
A sure sign of summer is the sight of summer flowers in the Botanical Garden at Milde. The finishing stage of the out planting is now around the corner.
Unknown Letters from Ibsen and Bjørnson Discovered (27.06.2011)
In a rather common type of desk in Bergen Museum’s furniture collection, a discovery of unknown treasures has been made.A total of 300 letters from D.C Danielssen’s recently discovered letter collection have now been opened and read through.
New Museum Director with Visions (21.06.2011)
- The Museum in Bergen has an exceptionally great potential, says Christoffer Schander, who right in the middle of the Museum Project 2014 will begin his tenure as the director of Bergen Museum.
A New Deep-Sea Fish Species Discovered by Scientists at Bergen Museum (26.05.2011)
A hitherto unknown deep-sea fish species of the scaleless smooth-heads (Alepocephalidae) has now for the first time been described and published by scientists at Bergen Museum and Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Massachusetts, USA.

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