Svalbard Museum
Institution: Svalbard Museum

The Svalbard Museum is a museum in Longyearbyen, the largest town in the Svalbard archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals. The museum have deposited a collectionn of photos capturing the history of Svalbard.

Read more about Svalbard Museum:

svalbardmuseum.no/en

Other collections

Ancient manuscripts from the Vatican

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...

Vatican Library
Art from South Korea

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...

Yongseok Oh
Digital art

Guttormsgaards Archive

Digital art

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

Guttormsgaards Archive

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.