Arctic Frontiers and the University Museum of Bergen will host a number of activities to celebrate the exhibition ‘Bergen-Greenland: The Forgotten Histories’. The celebration will bring together artists, curators, visual anthropologists and researchers from Greenland, Norway and Denmark, who have contributed to knowledge sharing about the history and connection of Bergen and Greenland.

Through a combination of historical documents, art, and more recent research material the exhibition invites the audience to reflect on how the connections between Bergen – and the whole of Norway – and Greenland have been shaped, and what these connections mean today. It broadly covers the development from the 17th century, the era of Egede’s colonial and mission enterprise, financed by wealthy Bergen merchants, to our own time. The exhibition project not only aims at bringing forth new knowledge but also challenge established understandings of the past.

The celebration will culminate with a public, open panel discussion, where contributors to the exhibition will join experts from Bergen, Norway, Greenland and Denmark.