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.

Forty Years Beneath the Tundra

The archaeological expedition that became
the Pomor Museum.

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.

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.