Femte Thuleekspedition. Mod nye fællesskaber

Authors

  • Martin Appelt The National Museum
  • Pernille Feldt University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities
  • Anne Mette Jørgensen The National Museum
  • Christian Sune Pedersen The National Museum
  • Jacob Riddersholm Wang The National Museum of Denmark

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.6655

Keywords:

Sub-arctic and Arctic collections, Nordic collaboration, The 5th Thule Expedition, ownership rights, source communities.

Abstract

Since 2014, the National Museum of Denmark has collaborated with the

Canadian organisations Kitikmeot Heritage Society (Cambridge Bay, Nunavut)

and Geomatics & Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University to make

materials from the Inuinnait (Copper Inuit) area collected during the 5th Thule

Expedition (1921–1924) digitally available firstly to people in Cambridge Bay,

and secondly to a wider public. The ambition is now to make the totality of the

5th Thule Expedition material digitally available through the so-called Tumisiutproject,

in order to integrate it into a wider framework of a new Nordic curatorial

and research collaboration around Arctic and Sub-Arctic collections. Pivotal

aspects of these collaborations are discussions on various domains of ownership

rights such as “world heritage”, “cultural rights”, and “copyright”. The initial steps

have recently been taken by the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum

of Cultural History, University of Oslo.

Author Biographies

Martin Appelt, The National Museum

Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Curator

Department of Modern History and World Cultures

 

Pernille Feldt, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities

MA. Science Assistant

 

 

 

Anne Mette Jørgensen, The National Museum

Ph.D., Project Researcher and Curator

Department of Modern History and World Cultures

 

Christian Sune Pedersen, The National Museum

Christian Sune Pedersen, Ph.D., Head of Research & Collections

Department of Modern History and World Cultures

 

Jacob Riddersholm Wang, The National Museum of Denmark

MA. Coordinator of Digital Initiativ

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