The exhibition "Sounds from the Archive – Birdsong in Northern Norway" is based on a series of cassette tapes featuring bird sounds that were released in the 1980s and 1990s. Alexander Rishaug, a sound artist and former fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, has explored the recordings, and in the interaction between the artist and the museum's research, many exciting new ideas about what a museum is and should be arise. Why is it so important for museums to have collections? How do these collections come about, and who benefits from them? Rishaug himself becomes a researcher in the museum's archives and materials, where he unravels a thread that began with a rather random discovery of a cassette several years ago.

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