Drammen Municipality Archives
Institution: Drammen Municipality Archives

Drammen city archive was established on 1 January 2007 and is a municipal archive institution for Drammen. The main task is to preserve, make available and disseminate municipal archives and private archives for Drammen and the former municipality of Skoger, which was merged with Drammen in 1964. The inventory as of 20 August 2012 was approx. 4,000 shelf metres. Of this, the majority are municipal archives from the period from 1760 to 2008, but with the main emphasis on the period after1837. The first deposit from the archive contains historical films from Drammen shot by the late Robert Halvorsen.

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Spike Jones - American musician

Utah Valley University

Spike Jones - American musician

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Utah Valley University
30 years of Brazilian life stories

Brazilian Museum of the Person

30 years of Brazilian life stories

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Brazilian Museum of the Person
Egyptian manuscripts

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...

University of Pisa

Want to join a deposit on Svalbard?

To visit Svalbard is on many people's bucket list, and we recommend everyone who stores their precious memories in AWA to participate in a deposit ceremony.

Image of the invitation to the deposit ceremony