What is the public memory of Norwegian immigrants in America today? How has an immigrant group with attachment to Scandinavian roots affected a culturally diverse society in America? A new article provides answers.
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Archaeologists Race Against Time to Save Arctic Sites from Climate Change
New journal paper offers first synthesis of climate change effects on Arctic sites.
A glimpse into the paint market in Norway in times of war
Preliminary results of an ongoing research project on painting materials in Norway during WW1 and post-war are presented in this text from a poster.
Is it right to destroy monuments over our dark past?
OPINION: Politicians, managers and researchers must be able to use their voices when cultural heritage contributes to discrimination, hatred and violence.
Call for Papers: Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns
NIKU is pleased to announce the conference ‘Nature and Culture in Medieval Towns’, to be held at Gamle Festsal, University of Oslo in Oslo on 6th-7th of March 2019.
The Secrets of St. Clement’s Church in Trondheim, Norway
A fascinating and complex history of the church has been uncovered, beginning with the original wooden church and leading to a sequence of three major rebuildings, corresponding in time with the transformation from Viking king Olaf to the royal saint St. Olaf of Norway.
Unusual medieval dice found in Bergen
Archaeologists in Bergen recently found a dice with two fours and two fives. But who was the medieval cheat?
WWII heritage in Arctic Europe
The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research (NIKU) is working on a research programme on World War II heritage, with a special focus on the northern and Arctic areas.
New article: The Scandinavian far-right and the new politicisation of heritage
What does far-right heritage policies actually look like? Read more in this new article by Herdis Hølleland and Elisabeth Niklasson.
New article: The narrow gap between norms and cooperative behaviour in a reindeer herding community
In an new article the authors argue that perceived norms potentially allow social networks promoting cooperation to emerge and be maintained in a Saami reindeer community.