An evolving archive connecting Barentsburg’s museum collections, local knowledge and historical materials with wider research into Svalbard’s cultural landscape.

Cultural Heritage

Materials contributed by

Pomor Museum, Barentsburg — internationally known as Art Arctic Gallery. Adapted from lectures and presentations by Tatiana Betcher.

Institution: Pomor Museum / Art Arctic Gallery

Contributor: Tatiana Betcher

Forty Years Beneath the Tundra

The archaeological expedition that became
the Pomor Museum.

Institution: Pomor Museum / Art Arctic Gallery

Contributor: Tatiana Betcher

The Names on the Ice

Svalbard has more than two thousand glaciers. Those that carry names carry rather more: Norse gods, European courts, and the patrons who paid for polar expeditions.

Institution: Pomor Museum / Art Arctic Gallery

Contributor: Tatiana Betcher

Whaling in the Svalbard archipelago

A short history of the 17th-century whaling stations that first drew European fleets to Spitsbergen — and the traces they left in the landscape.