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.
Latest news
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.
New article: Uses of Heritage and beyond
NIKU's Skrede and Hølleland on Heritage Studies viewed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism.
Welcome to NIKU’s World Heritage lunch!
On 14. March NIKU hosts an open lunchtime lecture where Herdis Hølleland and Jessica Phelps will present their recent World Heritage research.
NIKU and EAA 2018
NIKU staff are invoved in several sessions at this year’s EAA conference in Barcelona. Here is an overview.
Rare Arabic-inspired chess piece found in Tønsberg, Norway
Archaeologists recently made a particularly spectacular find in Tønsberg - a rare and richly decorated chess piece.
Article: Street art, heritage and embodiment
Laima Nomeikaite on Street Art in the Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal. Volume 3, Number 1
Kurs i geofysiske undersøkelser på Universitetet i Reykjavik.
Denne uken gjorde NIKUs fagfolk geofysiske undersøkelser utenfor den islandske presidentboligen.