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Specialist day about insect pests (03.01.2011)
Which are the most common pest insects in collections and storage spaces? What types of damage occur, how can we prevent, restore, and what is the status of research? These are some of the questions that are up for discussion at this Specialist Day on Friday 14 January.
Opening hours during Christmas and New Year (16.12.2010)
The Museum is open every day except 24, 25, 27, 31 December, and 1 January. 26 December: 11:00-16:00. 28, 29, and 30 December: 10:00-15:00.
New construction in the Arboretum (09.11.2010)
The Rhododendron Collection in the Arboretum is now being extended. The groundwork for the collection of heritage plants has now been completed.
Ocean Census – what lives in the world’s oceans? (22.10.2010)
Census is another word for population count. An extensive status report of this kind of life in the world’s oceans has recently been carried out by 2700 marine researchers from eighty countries over a period of 10 years in the global programme Census of Marine Life (CoML- www.coml.org), in which Bergen Museum and the University of Bergen have also participated through the MAR-ECO project (www.mar... Read more
Experience autumn in Bergen Museum (12.10.2010)
During the autumn holidays (12 - 17 October 2010), the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.). Come to the Cultural History Collections, Håkon Sheteligsplass 10, and take part in exciting adventures in our new Exploration Room!
Events this autumn – Culture Weekend, Science Week, Stones and Mysteries (24.09.2010)
This autumn you can find out fascinating facts about whales, mummies, stones, and mysterious figures. Bergen Museum’s Autumn Programme 2010 is now available.
The skin and egg collections are currently not available (19.05.2010)
Bergen Museum is renovating and the skin and egg collections are being packed for transportation to new premises. They are currently unavailable for examination.
The Yearbook “Årringen” 2009 (04.05.2010)
Årringen is now reaching its 13th year of publication. Yearbook no. 13 for the Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Milde, Bergen Museum, the University of Bergen
"New" Bergen Museum unveiled (04.05.2010)
The scaffolding on the north wing of the monumental building at Muséplass has now been removed. With that, the building now presents itself with a new colour, similar to the one it once had.
Exciting Cultural Exhibitions open at the Bergen Museum (15.04.2010)
At the Cultural History Collections, you will find a lot of exciting exhibitions. You can also solve puzzles, and you can visit a special children’s exhibition.
Norwegian University Museums on the Internet (15.03.2010)
You can now explore and find artefacts and specimens from the collections at Bergen Museum and other university museums via the Internet.
Natural History building temporarily closed from 1 April (15.03.2010)
Due to renovation The Natural History building at Muséplass 3 will be closed from 1 April 2010 until the end of January 2011. The Cultural History Collections will, however, be open to all visitors; every day except Mondays.
Lichen specimens from Svalbard, from the large archive at Realfagsbygget (the...
The first Arctic Lichen Flora (11.02.2010)
The book ”The Lichen Flora of Svalbard” is the first modern lichen flora of an Arctic region, and its point of departure is Svalbard.
Deeper than Light at the Smithsonian (08.02.2010)
The Bergen Museum “Deeper than Light” exhibit opens in the ‘Ocean hall’ of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington DC on February 20th.
Why are we so fascinated with Ancient Egypt? (08.02.2010)
Ancient Egypt has been a crowd puller ever since Antiquity, an experience shared by Bergen Museum with its mummies and exhibition on Eternal Life. Why does it fascinate us so much?
Exhibitions temporarily closed (18.01.2010)
Due to restoration work on windows and facade of the Natural History Collections, some of the exhibitions in the museum building at Muséplass 3 will be temporarily closed for a short period of time.
NEW BOOK: Life in the Mid Atlantic (11.11.2009)
The deep ocean exerts a powerful influence on the imagination of all of us, not least because of the scale, remoteness, and its sheer inaccessibility to the air-breathing life on land.
The three ”Muske Peers" and the chase for the Red Tulip (26.10.2009)
The Three Musketeers - or "Muske Pers" as they call themselves -Per Magnus Jørgensen. Per Harald Salvesen, and Per Arvid Åsen have run wild into the exciting world of tulips. On Tuesday evening at the lunch room (1104) in the Science Building you will hear the whole story. Open to all.

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