Swipe card: Bergen
Shall make a new proposal for area protection
The Directorate for Cultural Heritage has created a new version of the preservation proposal for the area around Bergenhus Fortress. Now, a series of dialogue meetings will be held in Bergen.The deadline for submitting input on the first version expired in February...
City council minutes from Bergen back to 1837 available online and searchable
Bergen Municipality has opened up large parts of the city's political history to the public. Through a new digital solution, city council minutes dating back to 1837 are now...
Exhibition: The colonization of Greenland originated in Bergen
A new exhibition at the University Museum in Bergen shows how missionaries, traders, and seal hunters from Bergen left their mark on Greenland. A young Greenlandic woman, Maria from Paamiut, died...
Searchable drivers in Bergen and Hordaland from 1938
The latest addition to the "Find your family" service here at Slekt1 is Bilboken for Bergen og Hordaland 1938. The book contains over 5000 cars and their owners,...
The 1920 census is now searchable with Bergen
At the beginning of August, Bergen was added to the searchable version of the 1920 census, which means that only Oslo remains before the entire 1920 census is...
The National Heritage Board protects a poorhouse for women in Bergen
The National Heritage Board is protecting Strange's Foundation in Bergen, a social institution for women for more than 350 years. The building from 1751 is located in a historic urban environment...
Republished censuses from Bergen 1922 and Gyldenpris 1921
Municipal censuses have a shorter blocking period than state censuses, which is why the census for Bergen 1922 and Gyldenpris 1921 was already published in 2016.Seven years...
