Summerproject with Bryggens Museum

Memoar and Norwegian-American Heritage

This year marks the 200-year anniversary of the first organized Norwegian emigration to North-America. The Crossings 200 jubilee includes events and exhibitions taking place both in Norway and North-America.

Project goals

The collaboration with Bryggens Museum started 01.07.2025. Our goal for this is to collect as many interviews as possible from visitors of the museum. The interviews content will primarily be about the history of migration to - and from Norway.
Below you will find our main interviews, short interviews and snippets from the project.
Feel free to contact us at: - migrasjonsminne@memoar.no

Main interviews

Short interviews

Snippets

Memoar - Norwegian oral history society

Memoar – the Norwegian Oral History Organisation – is managing this project. Other partners include the Association of Local History Societies, the National Genealogy Organisation, the Tamil Diaspora Archive, and the Council for Integration and Diversity. The main funding is provided by the Savings Bank DNB.

We have local projects running across Norway, in collaboration with local oral history societies, museums, and immigrant organisations. For the summer project in Bergen, the main target group will be foreigners with Norwegian roots.

Archive:

The interview collection will be archived in the regional public archive permanently, as part of our intangible cultural heritage. It will be open to researchers, family historians, writers—in short, anyone with an interest in history and migration. With the consent of each interviewee, the stories will also be made accessible on Memoar’s website: www.memoar.no.

Thematic division: https://www.migrasjonsminne.no/
Main page: https://www.memoar.no/om-oss/about

Crossings 200: https://crossings.norwegianamerican.com/

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