The little museum in Ny-Ålesund, officially called Ny-Ålesund By- og Gruvemuseum (Ny-Ålesund town and mine museum), is an interesting and informative attraction. You can learn a lot about the local history which is based on three branches of activities: coal mining, north pole expeditions and, exclusively in modern times, science.
The museum has a lot of information and photos about daily life in Ny-Ålesund when it was still a remote, isolated mining village. The 1920s saw the famous north pole expeditions mainly by Roald Amundsen (1926, airship Norge) and Umberto Nobile (1926 and 1928, then airship Italia). Click here for more information about these expeditions.
Ny-Ålesund was abandoned as a coal mining settlement in 1963 after several heavy accidents. All later activity there serves only science, either directly or indirectly (sometimes very indirectly).
The Ny-Ålesund By- og Gruvemuseum is housed in the former shop, which was built in 1917. It was converted to a museum in 1989 and modernised later.
This and other publishing products of the Spitsbergen publishing house in the Spitsbergen-Shop.
Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.