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Dr Moles visits the Natural History Museum of Bergen

Samples of gastropods collected along West Africa during the Nansen Project between 2005–2012 turn out to be new species to Science

The Natural History Museum of Bergen delegates to the World Congress of Malacology last July 2016 that took place at the UNESCO World Heritage City of Penang, Malaysia. From left to right: Christiane Todt, Jennifer Austin, Manuel Malaquias

During a fishing trip in 2012, Gøran Olsen discovered something between stones at Haukeli. The find is now at the University Museum, and appeared to be a single-edged Viking sword with an estimated date in the first half of the Viking Age (c.800-950). Watch the video story of the remarkable find.

On Friday 5 June, the theatre exhibition «On stage – off stage - back stage» opens at the Historical Museum. The exhibition shows stage design models, costumes, props, theatre playbills and photographs taken from different theatrical productions.

Researchers from the University Museum of Bergen have gathered and published information about the bubble shell in Species Online.

That trees like spruce and hemlock are uprooted in the Arboretum is not that important, but it is much worse when the storm takes a big bite out of the valuable collection of robles (Nothofagus). The valley of robles is now a shadow of its former self.

The season in the Alpine Garden is long and varied, from the first spring bulbs in late winter to the last flowering in late autumn. But especially now, in the early part of the summer, there is always something worth seeing, particularly when the new perennials have been planted out and the collections are complete.