"Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property () is a Norwegian government agency that manages central parts of the real estate portfolio of the Government of Norway. The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property provides construction and property management services on behalf of the Norwegian Government. This includes 2.7 million square meters in 2,350 buildings, of which 115 are located abroad. The portfolio includes office buildings, heritage sites, campuses, operational facilities, and other buildings. The directorate also manages the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard. The agency has at any time about"
"Arctic World Archive The Arctic World Archive was opened on Svalbard, Norway, March 27 2017, located deep inside arctic mountains with permafrost and ideal climatic conditions. The Svalbard archipelago is declared demilitarized by 42 nations, making the Artic World Archive an ideal location for valuable data storage. What the Global Seed Vault is for plants, the Arctic World Archive will be for the worlds digital heritage and valuable data; - a secure and safe place where the data will be available when all other systems fail. The archive is managed by Norwegian technology company Piql, in collaboration with governmental mining"
"has been proposed globally, but the monetary cost would be high. Furthermore, it would likely contribute to the current millions of deaths per year due to malnutrition. Some survivalists stock survival retreats with multiple-year food supplies. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is buried inside a mountain on an island in the Arctic. It is designed to hold 2.5 billion seeds from more than 100 countries as a precaution to preserve the world's crops. The surrounding rock is (as of 2015) but the vault is kept at by refrigerators powered by locally sourced coal. More speculatively, if society continues to function"
"company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani. The archive is located inside an abandoned coal mine on Svalbard, and is said to be nuclear safe. Data is stored offline on digital film that has a reported lifetime of 500 years. The archive stores data such as a digitized version of ""The Scream"" by Edvard Munch for the National Museum of Norway and a digitised version of ""the Divine Comedy"" for the Vatican Library. In March 2018 German science TV show Galileo deposited their first show and made a documentary about it for ProSieben. Arctic World Archive The Arctic World Archive was opened"
"help address future challenges to agriculture. The Crop Trust joined the Government of Norway and the Nordic Gene Bank in the 2008 establishment of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a ""fail-safe"" facility located at Svalbard, Norway. This facility provides a safety back-up for existing genebank collections, which are vulnerable to war, civil strife, natural disasters and even to equipment failure and mismanagement. The Vault has also been touted as providing a means for restoring agriculture in the event of a global catastrophe. It is designed to hold the seeds of some 4.5 million samples of different varieties of agricultural crops."
"Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum The Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum () is a museum located in Ny-Ålesund, a town on Spitsbergen, the central island of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. While some sources claim that the more well known Svalbard Museum holds the position, the museum is the world's northernmost such by virtue of Ny-Ålesund's position to the far north of the regional capital Longyearbyen. Formerly a coal mining settlement until a series of serious accidents (including a final one in 1962) closed down the mine, Ny-Ålesund – which dates back to the first decades of"
"Pyramiden Museum The Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits on biology and history, for example in the form of taxidermal polar wildlife, geological samples from the surrounding area, a few archaeological artefacts from the Pomors, some information on the coal mining industry, and a slew of Soviet memorabilia. Located from the regional capital Longyearbyen, the settlement was founded by Sweden in 1910 and purchased by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1927. A prominent coal mining settlement, Pyramiden once had a population"
"bar – with a souvenir shop and a postal office. Pyramiden Museum The Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits on biology and history, for example in the form of taxidermal polar wildlife, geological samples from the surrounding area, a few archaeological artefacts from the Pomors, some information on the coal mining industry, and a slew of Soviet memorabilia. Located from the regional capital Longyearbyen, the settlement was founded by Sweden in 1910 and purchased by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1927."
"1962 accident, early aviation on Svalbard, the scientific research carried out in Ny-Ålesund, and the settlement's society and culture. Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum The Ny-Ålesund Town and Mine Museum () is a museum located in Ny-Ålesund, a town on Spitsbergen, the central island of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. While some sources claim that the more well known Svalbard Museum holds the position, the museum is the world's northernmost such by virtue of Ny-Ålesund's position to the far north of the regional capital Longyearbyen. Formerly a coal mining settlement until a series of serious accidents (including"
"Spitsbergen Airship Museum The Spitsbergen Airship Museum (""Luftskipsmuseet på Spitsbergen"") is a museum located on the island of Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. It has been formally renamed as the North Pole Expedition Museum. It was co-founded by the Italian Stefano Poli and the Norwegian Ingunn Løyning. Plans to open the museum began in 2005. Originally a new building was supposed to be built to house the museum, but following a fallout with one of the share-owners in 2007 this idea was scrapped, and instead the Airship Museum was opened in 2008 in Longyearbyen's"
"events in a neutral tone, taking no sides. The museum's collection includes a ribbon granted to Nobile by Benito Mussolini, parts of the ""Norge"" logbook, aircraft models, international newspaper clippings, and other various objects connected to the expeditions. Spitsbergen Airship Museum The Spitsbergen Airship Museum (""Luftskipsmuseet på Spitsbergen"") is a museum located on the island of Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. It has been formally renamed as the North Pole Expedition Museum. It was co-founded by the Italian Stefano Poli and the Norwegian Ingunn Løyning. Plans to open the museum began in 2005. Originally"
"Spillings Hoard The Spillings Hoard () is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on Friday 16July 1999 in a field at the Spilling farm northwest of Slite, on northern Gotland, Sweden. The silver hoard consisted of two parts with a total weight of before conservation and consisted of, among other things, 14,295 coins most of which were Islamic from other countries. A third deposition containing over of bronze scrap-metal was also found. The three caches had been hidden under the floorboards of a Viking outhouse sometime during the 9th century. On Friday 16July 1999, a team of reporters from"
"Internettikka since 2001) was exhibited in TMCA (Total Museum of Contemporary Art) in Seoul, as a part of the Digital Playground 2008 - ""Hack the City!"" exhibition curated by Nathalie Boseul Shin. Video of Performance Norddikka was a live Internet Broadcast from Svalbard, Arctic Ocean on Wednesday 31 December 2008 at 23:55 PM Central European Time (GMT/UTC+1). 0Svalbard is a cluster of islands) in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, and forms the northernmost part of Norway and the northernmost lands of Europe. The largest island is Spitsbergen (37,673 km2"
"Svalbard Svalbard (; ; prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. The largest island is Spitsbergen, followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya. Administratively, the archipelago is not part of any Norwegian county, but forms an unincorporated area administered by a governor appointed by the Norwegian government. Since 2002, Svalbard's main settlement, Longyearbyen, has had an elected"
"Gene Bank, based in Alnarp, Sweden, in 2003, and founded the Svalbard International Seed Vault. The Seed Vault, also called the ""Doomsday Vault"", is supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and aims to preserve ""the raw material of agriculture"" to make it available for breeding and research even in the advent of disaster, war, or climate change. The Vault was scheduled to open in late 2008. Skovmand was opposed to patenting individual genes, describing it as ""like copyrighting each and every word in ""Hamlet"", and saying no one can use any word used in Hamlet without paying the author""."
"Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ""Vest Spitsbergen"" or ""Vestspitsbergen"", also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway. Constituting the westernmost bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea, and the Greenland Sea. Spitsbergen covers an area of , making it the largest island in Norway and the 36th-largest in the world. The administrative centre is Longyearbyen. Other settlements, in addition to research outposts, are the Russian mining community of Barentsburg, the research community of Ny-Ålesund, and the mining outpost of Sveagruva. Spitsbergen"
"Reserve and Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve, which cover most of the areas east of the main island of Spitsbergen, including the islands of Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya, Barentsøya, Kong Karls Land and Kvitøya. All seven national parks are located on Spitsbergen. Ten of the bird sanctuaries and Moffen Nature Reserve are located within a national park, while five of the bird sanctuaries are Ramsar sites. Svalbard is on Norway's tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The supreme responsibility for conservation lies with the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, which has delegated the management of the Governor of Svalbard and"
"a necklace made of twenty two glass beads. Tromsø Burial The Tromsø Burial or ""Tromsø Grave Group"" is a significant hoard of Viking objects found near Tromsø, in the far north of Norway, in the late nineteenth century. Since 1900, the group has been part of the British Museum's early medieval collection. This group of jewellery was found in a woman's grave near Tromsø in the late nineteenth century by the famous English adventurer Arnold Pike, who also spent the 1888/89 winter exploring the island of Spitsbergen. Pike is said to have excavated several mounds on the island of Tussøya,"
"Svalbard Global Seed Vault that opened on February 26, 2008 in Svalbard, Norway. It was the only citizen-led group in the United States to contribute to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for opening day. SSE also has seeds at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation located in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. SSE is involved in a seed donation program for schools and community gardens. Seed Savers Exchange Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization based near Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. It is one of the largest nongovernmental seedbanks"
"and human-mediated agriculture and consumption. The Vault is managed through a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Crop Trust and NordGen. Nordgen provides operational management and Vault deposits in collaboration with depositing genebanks and the Crop Trust which co-funds Vault operations and funds seed shipment from developing countries to the Vault in Svalbard. The European Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) in which NordGen participates is a European gene bank collaboration whose working groups include the development of AEGIS, a virtual gene bank which serves as a tool for guaranteeing, rationalizing and coordinating European gene"
"was chased off the island by the Norwegians, in June 1943, a German flotilla, including raided Spitzbergen on 7 September, took 31 prisoners and destroyed much of the infrastructure and equipment of Gearbox II. On 19 October, the cruiser and four destroyers delivered more Norwegian troops. The Svalbard Archipelago is in the Arctic Ocean from the North Pole. The islands are mountainous, with permanently snow-covered peaks, some glaciated; there are occasional river terraces at the bottom of steep valleys and some coastal plains. In winter, the islands are covered in snow and the bays ice over. Spitzbergen Island has several"
"Norwegian research, while Ny-Ålesund is roughly evenly split between Norwegian and foreign. Svalbard Satellite Station was built because of Longyearbyen's excellent location to download data from satellites in polar orbit. Located at Platåberget above Hotellneset, it was built as a cooperation between NASA and the Norwegian Space Centre, but has since 2001 been operated by Kongsberg Satellite Services. EISCAT operates an incoherent scatter radar to study the northern lights. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, administered by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is a secure underground facility capable of storing millions of crop seeds. The facility has been designed to protect"
"Icelandic Phallological Museum The Icelandic Phallological Museum (), located in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts. The collection of 280 specimens from 93 species of animals includes 55 penises taken from whales, 36 from seals and 118 from land mammals, allegedly including Huldufólk (Icelandic elves) and trolls. In July 2011, the museum obtained its first human penis, one of four promised by would-be donors. Its detachment from the donor's body did not go according to plan and it was reduced to a greyish-brown shriveled mass that was pickled in a jar of formalin. The"
"declined. A primary school served the community of Pyramiden in the pre-1998 period. There is a non-degree offering tertiary educational institution in Longyearbyen, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), the tertiary school in the northernmost location on Earth. Sources Svalbard Svalbard (; ; prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. The largest island is Spitsbergen, followed"
"Paleontologisk Museum The Paleontological Museum (""Paleontologiske samlinger"") contains the largest collection of fossils in Norway. It is part of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. The principal focus is on fossils from the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Oslo Region, the Norwegian continental shelf and from the Arctic Archipelago. The collection includes fossils and sedimentary rocks from both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Large collections are from Svalbard, as well as specimens from Greenland, Canada and Russia. The collection is estimated to consist of over 1 million samples, including fossils of invertebrates from the Permian geologic period."
"for drinking horns. The bronze objects span a period of 200–300 years and are mostly of Baltic origin or possibly Russian with only a few of them Scandinavian. Even though several scholars have been involved in identifying the deposition, no consensus have been reached regarding why the hoard was collected or the dating of it. Two theories are that it was either the stock of a foundryman living on Gotland, or booty from a Viking raid that was hidden under the floor of the outhouse. Spillings Hoard The Spillings Hoard () is the world's largest Viking silver treasure, found on"
"""Fortitude"" (2015) is a murder mystery set in a fictional version of Svalbard. It consists of 21 episodes over 2 seasons. The series was actually filmed in Reyðarfjörður, Eastern Iceland and the UK. Horror ""found footage"" podcast The White Vault takes place in Svalbard at the fictional Outpost Fristed (Norwegian for ""sanctuary""), a mining outpost for Sidja Group, where a team is sent to repair an equipment malfunction. Svalbard in fiction Novelists, screenwriters and filmmakers have set their works in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic which constitutes the northernmost part of Norway. Fictional works about Svalbard often make reference"
"materials held by the Schøyen Collection remains subject to controversy. Among the most notable items of the collection are the following: Schøyen Collection The Schøyen Collection is the largest private manuscript collection in the world, mostly located in Oslo and London. Formed in the 20th century by Martin Schøyen, it comprises manuscripts of global provenance, spanning 5,000 years of history. It contains more than 13,000 manuscript items; the oldest is about 5,300 years old. There are manuscripts from 134 different countries and territories, representing 120 distinct languages. The variety of manuscripts—geographic, linguistic, textual and material—even more than its size makes"
"The White Vault The White Vault is a found footage horror fiction podcast created by K.A. Statz. The story takes place in Svalbard, Norway and features an international cast and crew from Iceland, Germany, Finland, the UK, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States, most notably featuring David Ault and Peter Lewis of The NoSleep Podcast, as well as Lani Minella. The story follows a repair team sent to discover the source behind a mysterious signal coming from a remote Arctic research station. The team is quickly trapped by a blizzard and must survive horrors while in total isolation. They"
"precipitation, giving the island a steppe climate, plants still have good access to water because the cold climate reduces evaporation. The growing season is very short, and may last only a few weeks. There are six national parks on Spitsbergen: Indre Wijdefjorden, Nordenskiöld Land, Nordre Isfjorden Land, Nordvest-Spitsbergen, Sassen-Bünsow Land and Sør-Spitsbergen. The island also features Festningen Geotope Protected Area; some of the northeastern coast is part of Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve. All human traces dating from before 1946 are automatically protected. Svalbard is on Norway's tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (formerly known as"
"breeding centers at the global level as well as in the Nordic region. NordGen has extensive United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Bioversity International and the Crop Trust collaborations. Here are key NordGen international projects: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) owned by the government of Norway, was inspired by a safety store NordGen had placed in a former Svalbard coal mine. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Bioversity International approached Norwegian authorities to open a comprehensive facilitye and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault began, in 2008, to be the safety store of Earth's most important crops for human"
"Alkhornet Alkhornet is a mountain on the western coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of Norway’s arctic Svalbard archipelago. It is 428 m in height and stands in southern Oscar II Land on the northern side of the entrance to the inlet of Isfjorden near the bay of Trygghamna. It has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because its cliffs support about 10,000 breeding pairs of seabirds. The cliffs are composed of metamorphosed carbonate rock, over a billion years old. The moss tundra below the cliffs receives nutrients from the seabird colonies and is lush"
"Oslo. The objects are stored in reservoirs at Frogner Manor, and in some satellites around Oslo. Many of these are digitized and made available to the public on DigitalMuseum. Particularly valuable are the art collection and photo collection with Oslo scenes and portraits. The photo collection is one of the largest and documents the city's development from photography's infancy to the present. In 2010 Oslo Museum along with the Oslo City Archives established the site Oslobilder as an online image base with searchable access to the digitized parts of photo collections from both institutions. Oslo Museum displays the museum's exhibitions"