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1825 - 2025
200 years of migration
Norwegian ancestors?
Norway builds an oral history collection
about migration from and to Norway.
The interviews will be shared on
and archived for the
future.
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
Project goals
The collaboration with Bryggen 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
Main interviews
Short interviews
Short interviews
Snippets
Snippets
Memoar - Norwegian oral history society
Memoar - the Norwegian Oral History Organisation - is managing this project. Other partners in the project are the association of local history societies, the national genealogy organisation, the Tamil Diaspora Archive and a Council for Integration and Diversity. Main funding is provided by the Savings Bank DNB.
We have local projects going on all over Norway, in cooperation with local oral history societies, museums and immigrant organisastions. In the summer project i Bergen, foreigners with Norwegian roots will be the target group no. 1.
Archive:
Archive:
The interview collection will be archived in the regional public archive for all future, as part of our intangible heritage. It will be open for researchers, family historians, writers - in short anyone with interest for history and migration. Provided the consent of each interviewee, the stories will also be accessible on Memoar’s website - www.memoar.no
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