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Hello, this is the blog post for our visit to the Center for Studies of Holocaust & Religious Minorities & In/Visible: Everyday Racism in Norway Exhibit. We first were sat down in the office of Vidkun Quisling, puppet head of the Nazi Regime in Norway during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World…

Hello everybody! Today was filled with good times, so let us get into it. To start the day off strong, most of us ate at the lovely breakfast provided by our hostel, filling up on toast and cookies alike. After getting our fill, we found our way to our classroom to have our lecture and…

Today was one of the rainiest days we have had so far in Norway. It was a free day, so we decided to visit the University Museum Of Bergen. The museum had hundreds of taxidermies of many different species, and some animals had even been preserved since the 1700’s. The museum took us on a…

On this free day in Bergen, I decided to visit the Bryggens Museum built over the remains of the city’s oldest buildings, showcasing life in medieval Bergen. Below ground exists the main exhibit which includes artifacts from a thirteen-year excavation initiated after a fire in 1955 that burnt down sections of Bryggen. Some of the…

On our second full day in Oslo, our class visited the open-air Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and took a closer look at the Sámi cultural exhibit. The exhibit is a circular room with artifacts displayed on every wall, surrounding a scene featuring a goahti, a classic Sámi tent used by the Reindeer Sámi, as…

January 24, 2025 Today, our class made our way down the mountain to pay a visit to the Queer Archive at the library of the University of Bergen. We were greeted and given a presentation by Bjørn André Widvey and Jo Hjelle, who both work in the archive.  The Queer Archive is part of the…

Our first full day in Bergen was an adventurous one! We began the day with a trip down to the University of Bergen for a guest lecture by Dr. Raquel Herrero-Arias, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Development. The lecture was titled “Parenting and Family Life in Norway from Migrants’ Perspectives.” As…

We kicked off the day early with a 6:50 am hotel checkout. The sky was still pitch black when we woke up. After quickly packing up and checking out, we got on a tram and made our way to Oslo Sentralstasjon. Normally our activities and class times started at 10 am, so having to wake…

Sunday, January 19th was our last free day in Oslo, so I put together a collection of some of the many activities my fellow students and I decided on for one of our final days before heading to Bergen. There were several different routes that people chose on their day off, some choosing to stay…

“I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator […] in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his acceptance speech for the…