EXHIBITIONS
Temporary
Exhibitions| 2008 |
"Japanese
Kites""8th September - 25th November 2008
Kites have been the subject of the life of the Japanese for centuries.
This collection of 40 Japanese kites from different times and kite makers throughout Japan is one of the most colorfully delightful displays to introduce visitors to the art and culture of the Japanese.
The exhibition is produced by The Drachen Foundation, Seattle, USA.
| 2007 |
"Meteorites
- a greeting from outer
space"
10th September - 26th November 2007
An exhibition of exciting facts about meteorites,
landings and craters.
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Spacestation Nordland21st January - 31st March 2007
This was part of the project “The Cultural Rucksack” organised by Nordland County Council in autumn 2006. Approximately 200 young students from Fauske and Rognan have made their own version of how outer space may look. You can see the Earth seen from above, different planets, stars and perhaps the shadow of an alien?
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| 2006 |
RYMDEN
C – 39 mil over havet
1st September - 30th November 2006
«RYMDEN C – 390 km in space» will let you feel what it would be like to be an astronaut on board ISS, the International Space Station.
Experience spinning around in weightlessness, try out a workstation or examine the space toilet and shower! Try working out on the training cycle, with a fantastic view of Tellus, or take a nap in space – standing upright!
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Small is
Beautiful
A journey through the
micro-cosmos
16th February - 31st May
This exhibition is
photograph through a electronic microscope at the University
of Tromsø.
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Do you want a laugh?
7th December - 20th April
Then the new exhibition at the Norwegian Aviation Museum is for you!
Laughter in the air!
An aircraft mad Professor from Oslo Handel’s college, Tore Lund, began collecting aviation jokes. The exhibition “Laughter in the air” is a compilation of these.
“Baghdad
and Infinity”6th September – 30th November 2004
19th August - 31st October 2005
Enjoy solving riddles, cracking codes, solving practical assignments, games? Then this exhibition is something for you!
You can do all this and more, set in am oriental-inspired surrounding with bazaar tent and Persian rugs. “Baghdad and Infinity” is full of challenges for you to solve, perhaps unwittingly, using mathematics.
Read more (Norwegian)ingen!
28th April - 7th August 2005
”Kvaster på såret” er en vandreutstilling laget av Tromsø Museum. Det er en fargerik og flott utstilling. Den viser hvordan folk i Nord-Norge skaffet seg mat og medisin ved hjelp av gammel kunnskap om lokale planter. Utstillingen forteller også hvordan den tradisjonelle kunnskapen om plantenes kraft danner basis for både moderne farmasi, alternativ medisin og vårt daglige kosthold.
“Lighter
than Air”24th March - 29th August 2004
The exhibition “Lighter than Air- the dream of flight” will encourage creativity and the same time tell us how our dream of flight has evolved during time.
The exhibition is aimed mainly for children and teenagers, but adults will also enjoy this exhibition. It is a mixture of fanciful sculptures of the first attempt of flight and today’s advanced technology. Natures own fantastic solutions on how we can fly, is shown from the world of birds and insects.
The exhibition is constructed by The Swedish National Exhibition dept.
Internet
exhibition:
To the Sky?
Aviation pioneer Einar Sem-Jacobsen's
photographs from Norwegian and European aviation circa
1909-1918
The 17th of December 2003 will mark the one hundred years that have passed since the Wright brothers took off from the surface of the Earth with the first flying machine. With a flight of 36.6 metres in the course of 12 seconds, the brothers flew into history. The exhibition To the Sky? is one of the contributions from the Norwegian Aviation Museum that celebrates 100 years of flight. We have taken the liberty to shift the focus from the Wright brothers in the USA - to Europe and Norway to look at what was happening here in the years after the first powered flight on wings in 1903.
The
exhibition can be visited at
www.luftfart.museum.no/100/en/
“Mysterious China”
from 2nd of September until 31st of
October 2003 For thousands of years, China has been a country of mystery and excitement. Goods, such as silk, bamboo and tea fascinated Europeans. How is silk produced? Were there really dragons in China?
Silkworms, tea bushes and fossils of dinosaur bones, are just some of the exhibits you’ll see in this fascinating exhibition. China is a country full of contrasts and natural phenomena’s. The hunt for dragons has given us a sensational insight about theorigin of birds.
The exhibition is intended for both adults and children of all ages
To find out more about the exhibition, visit www.toyen.uio.no/kina
"SOS
Italia"
17th
June – 10th August 2003
Photography exhibition about the dramatic
crash
of the airship “Italia” in the Artic, with Umberto
Nobile on board and the disappearance of Roald
Amundsen as he searched for it. The exhibition
shows in a diary presentation, what happened
after the crash and the worldwide search and
rescue to find Nobile.
From
the introduction to the exhibit:
75
years ago the airship Italia flew to the North
Pole under command of General Umberto Nobile.
During the return flight the airship crashed on the
pack ice. This exhibit has been arranged to honour
Norway’s Polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Leif
Dietrichson and all those brave men who lost their
lives in the attempt to rescue the surviving Italia
expedition members in distress on the ice. A total
of 23 airplanes, 16 ships and 1.400 men from
eight countries were involved in the rescue
operations between May and October 1928.
This photo exhibit has been prepared by the Polar
historian Dr. Fred Goldberg. The ambition is to
give a short summary of the major events around
the airship disaster and the following search and
rescue operations. Some of the events are well
documented and some not. Therefore the photographs have not been
chosen
for their quality but for their motif and historical
significance.
"Bats!"March - June 2003
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“The Big 5”
13th October - 23rd December 2002
A
collection of photographs about the 5 largest predators in the
Nordic Countries: Wolves, Bears, Lynx, Wolverine and
Humans!!
This exhibition allows you to learn more about animals and the
debate around them. Seeing humans as a predator, gives a new
insight into the debate.
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more
"The polar aviator, Roald Amundsen"27th January - 31st September 2002
On the 12th of May 2001, it was 75 years ago that Roald Amundsen and his crew crossed the North Pole in the airship "Norge". It was the time the North Pole had been crossed by any form of transport.
The exhibition "Polar aviator, Roald Amundsen", is presented by The Fram Museum and includes many photographs never previously seen.
"The many faces of the cold war"
18th February 2002- 16th February 2003
The exhibition puts focus on Bodø and Nothern Norway. Relive the cold War years with the race for atomic dominance. See how the cold war influenced our culture and development of Nothern Norway's communities, through pictures, films and exhibits such as an atomic bomb, the spy, Selmer Nilsen's radio and much more.
”Aurora
Borealis"
– The Northern Lights
2nd September
“Aurora
Borealis” is about the fantastic natural phenomena that we
here in the north of Norway can expeince during the dark
months of autumn and winter.
We can offer
a unique insight into natures own Light Show. The display
varies from the scientific then and now, the northern lights
importance in mythology and the supernatural.
And not least,
the influence and inspiration on many artists.
With a wide
prospective, the exhibition try’s to build a bridge between
science and nature.
There’s also
a video show with accompanying cosmic music.
The Northern
Lights exhibition is part of the teacher training
institute’s 50th anniversary, which is being
celebrated this school year in many differ ways. The
exhibition is own by Andøya Rocket range and is produced by
The Norwegian Technical Museum.
Experience tropical fish
30th
September - 30th November 2001
Come
and see stingrays, the tree climbing fish Nils, experience the
colourful fish from Africa’s lakes and enjoy the amazon’s
beautiful underwater life
The
exhibition gives both large and small an unforgettable meeting
of these beautiful and exciting
fish in a recreation of their natural habitat
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Glimpses from the bombing of Bodø 27. mai 1940
Virtual trip
Under the Polar Sky
- An exhibition about the aviation pioneer Bernt Balchen
24th October 1999 - 25th April 2000
"Under the Polar Sky" aims at rendering a complex portrait of Bernt Balchen as an individual and a pilot. The exhibition has been built up around a great number of photographs, supplemented with objects and models. The exhibition also includes five water-color paintings made by Balchen himself.
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The many faces of the Cold War
- an exhibition on the Cold War
On the occasion of NATOs 50th anniversary 1999.
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