Collection

AWA is home to historical manuscripts, literature, music, contemporary art, museum masterpieces, scientific breakthroughs, the writings of Nobel laureates, priceless cultural heritage, irreplaceable memories of indigenous people, the worlds open-source software and much more.

Brazilian Museum of the Person

30 years of Brazilian life stories

The Museum of the Person, a virtual and collaborative museum dedicated to the recording, preservation and dissemination of life stories,...

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National Museum of Norway

I Call it Art

The National Museum of Norway is the largest art museum in Scandinavia, and holds, conserves, exhibits and promotes public knowledge...

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Yale University Library

Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite

The Yale University Library’s EaaSI (Emulation as a Service Infrastructure) program made its first contribution to AWA. The goal of...

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Sparebank 1

NFT's and digital Svalbard money

The Norwegian bank Sparebank1 and the cryptocurrency exchange service provider Kaupang Krypto have, in collaboration, introduced a collection of non-fungible...

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Norwegian Health Archive

Norwegian Health Archive

The Norwegian Health Archive is a national registry for trustworthy health data for research and good health. The first deposit...

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Embassy of Kosovo in Norway

Oral history from Kosovo

Established in 2012, the Oral History Initiative is a Kosovo-based collective of researchers from different generations and nationalities. The Initiative...

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Repsol

Spanish industrial history and heritage

Repsol is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company performing worldwide upstream and downstream activities, formed by around 24000 employees...

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Sparebank 1

Svalbard! Money!

In this insightful book Søberg talks about what money is and how it shifts with time and technology. From the...

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Berner Minster Foundation

Swiss cathedral - Bern Minster

The Bern Minster is a Swiss reformed cathedral, in the old city of Bern, Switzerland. Built in the Gothic style,...

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Eléonore Mongiat

The French artist Serge Bassenko

Serge Bassenko (1927-2013) was a French artist, thinker and writer always in search of the soul of the human world....

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GitHub

The GitHub Tech Tree

In their third deposit, GitHub preserved what they refer to as the Tech Tree, a selection of works intended to...

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Top Dog Studios

Top Dog Studios - Digital Art and NFT's

Top Dog Studios is the innovative and creative studio behind the world-famous Top Dog Beach Club NFT (non-fungible tokens) collection,...

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Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

UNESCO World Heritage - Bhimbetka

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency, under the Ministry of Culture, that is responsible for...

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Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

UNESCO World Heritage - Dholavira

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency, under the Ministry of Culture, that is responsible for...

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Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)

UNESCO World Heritage - Taj Mahal

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency, under the Ministry of Culture, that is responsible for...

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Hans Petter Moland

A feature film from Svalbard

The renowned Norwegian Director, Hans Petter Moland has chosen to deposit a classic Norwegian film Zero Kelvin (Kjærlighetens Kjøtere), filmed...

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Artemis Art Gallery

Art from South-East Asia

Representing the first Malaysian contribution, this deposit celebrates South-East Asian's vibrant art culture as seen through the eyes of emerging...

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Guttormsgaards Archive

Digital art

Led by art historian Ellef Prestsæter, and working with US artist Sean Snyder, Guttormsgaards Arkiv is depositing a special digital...

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Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA)

Durga Saptashati Manuscripts

Facilitated by Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) and the Ministry of Culture in India, the Durga Saptashati Manuscripts...

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Progettali

Global photographic collection

A unique historic photographic collection is being deposited by Progettali, a private photographic archive. The collection features photos from Europe...

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National Library of Hungary

Hungarian cultural heritage

Representing the first Hungarian deposit, The National Library of Hungary deposited a selection of manuscripts representing different eras, along with...

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The Saga Heritage Foundation

Icelandic and Nordic manuscripts

The Saga Heritage Foundation has chosen to deposit the Flateyjarbok from 1387, one of the most important Icelandic and Nordic...

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Embassy of Kazakhstan in Norway

National symbols of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's Ambassador to Norway, Yerkin Akhinzhanov, followed by a Kazakh delegation, made a deposit containing digitised versions of the national...

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Wislawa Szymborska Foundation

Nobel Prize winner

AWA welcomes Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska. The Arctic World Archive is proud to have received the works of Nobel...

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Oslo Pictures

Norewegian Cannes Film Festival winner

The Norwegian film producer Oslo Pictures is depositing the new movie "Verdens verste menneske". English title is "The Worst Person...

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Norwegian Armed Forces Museum

Norway in WWII

The Norwegian Armed Forces Museum made its second deposit with a collection of photographs from Luftfartsmuseet, Forsvarsmuseet and Hjemmefrontsmuseet. These...

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Tronrud Engineering

Norwegian industry history

Tronrud Engineering, one of the great stories of Norwegian industrial development, is depositing its core corporate history, centred around a...

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Spirit Wrestler Productions

Saskatchewan Doukhobor cultural heritage

The Doukhobours or Dukhobors (Spirit-Warriors/Wrestlers) are a Spiritual Christian ethnoreligious group of Russian origin, The Doukhobor community, among the first...

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Natural History Museum of Norway

The fossil Britney

Making its second AWA deposit, the Natural History Museum chose to preserve a 'local' - the data from Ophthalmothule Cryostea,...

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Sapio Analytics

UNESCO World Heritage - Brihadishvara Temple

After the initiation of preservation of paintings on the UNESCO world heritage site, Ajanta Caves, more restored artworks from ancient...

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GitHub

All of GitHub's active public repositories

In their second deposit, GitHub preserved a snapshot of all active public repositories on its platform into AWA in July...

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Martin Schøyen Foundation

Bibliotheca Manuscripts Schoeyana

The Schøyen Collection was started around 1920 by Engineer M.O. Schøyen (1896-1962), father of Martin Schøyen, who collected some 1000...

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Finnish Labor Archive

Labour history

The Finnish Labour Archive, Työväen Arkisto, is Finland’s oldest social movement archive that preserves and makes available the records of...

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Norwegian Armed Forces Museum

Life in Norway during WWII

The Norwegian Armed Forces Museum deposited a significant part of its digitised photo collection ncluding the complete collection from The...

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Olga Tokarczuk Foundation

Nobel Prize winner

Olga Tokarczuk Foundation and Literary Publishing (virtually) deposited the complete literary works of Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel Prize Laureate, marking...

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National Museum of Norway

Norwegian female photographers

The National Museum of Norway made its third deposit in a row deposit, with important photographic collections from three female...

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Mjøndalen Sports Association

Norwegian sports history

Mjøndalen Sports Association, Norway, deposited its 110-year history, featuring celebrated triumphs, rivalries, videos, photos and stories that have been treasured...

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UNICEF

Supporters of the Child Convention

UNICEF made their second deposit, featuring a petition of thousands of signatures in support of their previous deposit, of the...

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Moderna Museet

Swedens complete database of art

Moderna Museet, Sweden, deposited a copy of its entire art database of 140,000 pieces, along with the descriptions and images....

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Center for Informatics and Automation of the State of Santa Catarina

The history of the State of Santa Catarina

CIASC, a public provider of IT services in Brazil and in collaboration with Santa Catarina State Archives, virtually deposited precious...

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Sapio Analytics

UNESCO World Heritage - Ajanta Caves

Sapio Analytics deposited high resolution images of the Ajanta Caves in India, the first AWA deposit of a UNESCO world...

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Vatican Library

Ancient manuscripts from the Vatican

The Vatican Library built on its previous deposit with more ancient manuscripts, making it the Archive’s largest contributor. The 60...

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GitHub

Arctic Code Vault

GitHub is the world's primary source of software tools and repositories, and 75 million software developers and millions of organisations...

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Yongseok Oh

Art from South Korea

A Korean Artist, Yongseok Oh, is now storing an art project focussed on time, in the Arctic World Archive. Through...

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Utah Valley University

Beit Lehi - the lost city of ancient Israel

Many of the historical milestones that happened anciently in the land of Israel are reflected by the settlement history of...

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Brazilian Museum of the Person

Brazilian life stories

The Museum of the Person, a virtual and collaborative museum dedicated to the recording, preservation and dissemination of life stories....

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Utah Valley University

Collections from National Archive of Namibia

Utah Valley University (UVU) is a public university in Orem, Utha that is engaged in digital preservation education and activities....

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University of Pisa

Egyptian manuscripts

Pisa University deposited manuscripts including those of the Egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini, which still constitute an indispensable tool for scholars of...

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European Space Agency (ESA)

ESA's satellite data

The European Space Agency (ESA) deposited some sample data acquired by its first Earth Remote Sensing (ERS) satellite launched in...

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Utah Valley University

First audio recordings on Edison cylinders

Utah Valley University (UVU) is a public university in Orem, Utah, that is engaged in digital preservation education and activities....

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CERN

Higgs boson scientific breakthrough

The landmark discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN in 2012, and the progress...

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Natural History Museum of Norway

Ida - the missing link

The National History Museum of Norway deposited the original digital files and the x-ray images of the worldrenowned Ida fossil...

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Variety Distribution

Italian classical cinema

Variety Communication, a film distributor with one of the largest Italian heritage film collections, deposited the iconic Ladri di Biciclette...

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The Prodigy

Music for the Jilted Generation

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboard player and...

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Utah Valley University

Namibian Women's Issues

Utah Valley University (UVU) is a public university in Orem, that is engaged in digital preservation education and activities. UVU...

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Telia/Hidden

Norwegian folk tales

Telia, in collaboration with a Norwegian start-up, Hidden, deposited a collection of Norwegian folk tales that capture the essence of...

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Mediaset Infinity

Oscar winning Italian feature film Mediterraneo

Infinity, a service of MediaSet deposited one of the most iconic italian movies: “Mediterraneo” - directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The...

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Barcelona Provincial Council

Plenary acts from Barcelona

The Provincial Diputación of Barcelona is the local body charged with the government and administration of the province of Barcelona....

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Future of Religious Heritage

Religious heritage from Europe

Future for Religious Heritage (FRH) is committed to reaching the goal of engaging Europeans from every community in the heritage...

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National Museum of Norway

Sami Culture

The National Museum of Norway made a deposist with selected artworks celebrating Sami culture. ...

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Felipe Gónzalez Foundation

Spanish political memories

Fundación Felipe Gónzalez deposited important political memories, including transcripts of secret meetings, photographs, letters and handwritten notes by the sitting...

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Utah Valley University

Spike Jones - American musician

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music....

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Svalbard Museum

Svalbard photos

The Svalbard Museum is a museum in Longyearbyen, the largest town in the Svalbard archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from...

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SCG

Thai industrial history

SGC Thailand, a leading business conglomerate has digitally preserved its history in the Arctic World Archive. This history, covering the...

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Guggenheim Bilbao

The architecture of Guggenheim Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian American architect Frank Gehry, and...

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UNICEF

The Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNICEF, originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an...

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Goethe University Frankfurt

The Gutenberg Bible

Goethe University is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university,...

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National Museum of Norway

The life of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism...

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Rjksmuseum

The Night Watch made immortal

The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam....

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Audiorama

The Sound Bench - unique Swedish sound works

Audiorama initiates, plan and execute projects focusing on contemporary sound art, earplays and electroacoustic music. They commission, produce and present...

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Bubo Travel

Travel history preserved

The Slovakian travel agency Bubo Travel has deposited their 25 year history from travels around the world. Being the biggest...

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National Museum of Norway

Winter Night in the Mountains

The National Museum of Norway made their second deposit to the Archive, featuring a diverse collection of the more valuable...

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National Museum Brasilia

Art from Brazil

The National Museum of the Republic has deposit digitized works of art that represent the collection of well-regarded Brazilian painters...

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Brazilian Football Confederation

Brazilian fotball at its best

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. Now they have made sure that the...

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Gilberto Gil

Brazilian music

Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to...

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TV Globo

Fantastico - frozen TV

Brazilian TV Globo deposited the first episode of the year 2000 of the TV Show "Fantastico". Fantastico is a TV...

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Minna Alaluusua

Finnish art

The Finnish contemporary artist and Master of Arts preserved valuable photographs (some model and artwork photos) in digital and visual...

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Pro Sieben Galileo

Galileo "on ice"

Galileo is a German television program series produced and broadcast on ProSieben television network. Their first show was broadcasted in...

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Drammen Municipality Archives

Historical films from Drammen

Drammen city archive was established on 1 January 2007 and is a municipal archive institution for Drammen. The main task...

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Ravish Mehra and family

Holy scriptures of Hinduism

The Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the epic...

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Vatican Library

Italian masterpiece - The Divine Comedy

The "Divine Comedy" (La Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in...

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Renata Tebaldi Foundation

Italian opera

Renata Tebaldi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent...

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Fratelli Alinari

Oldest photos

Fratelli Alinari was one of the world's oldest photographic firms, founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contained 5.5...

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Der Spiegel

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army...

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National Museum of Norway

The Scream

The National Museum in Oslo exhibits Norway's largest collection of art, architecture and design. The museum holds a significan collection...

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National Archives of Brazil

Brazil's Constitution

The National Archive of Brazil deposited historical documents such as the first Constitution of the Monarchy from 1824, the first...

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KDRS

County municipality records

KDRS is the Norwegian municipal archive institutions' digital resource centre and is owned by the members, who are municipal and...

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National Archive of Mexico

Independence Act of the Mexican Empire

The National Archive of Mexico deposited some of their most valuable assets; the Constitution of the Mexican Federation, the Independence...

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