Winter trapping
Permanent exhibitionThis exhibition features the trapping of polar bears and polar foxes. The main attraction is an original trapping cabin from Svalbard, built at Krosspynten, Wijdefjorden in 1910.
The expeditions were equipped by fur dealer Claus Andersen in Tromsø. Two of the five trappers, trapping leader Anton Eilertsen and the swede Gustav Fors, decided to do another winter season in 1911. Both eventually got scurvy. Eilertsen died in the cabin in the spring of 2012. Fors, under dramatic circumstances, managed to makes his way to Longyearbyen by foot - a trip of three days.
In the years that followed, the cabin was used as a trapping station by several winter trappers. It was moved to the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo in 1936, and was exhibited there until 1974.
The purpose of this exhibition is to depict a trapping environment, within and around a traditional trapping station in the Arctic cirka 1930.
