A café with a view of the popular tourist attraction Helleren. Museum shop, toilets and a documentary. That is enough to open the doors this summer, the museum management believes. June Stuen is director of the Dalane Folk Museum, which owns and operates the new Science Museum. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news – We do it because there are so many tourists who come to Helleren. Last year, 35,000 people visited this cultural monument. Then it would be a shame, when we have a café and toilets, that people should not be able to come in this summer, says director June Stuen in Dalane Folkemuseum, who owns and operates the new cultural building. Helleren in Dalane Cultural monument in Jøssingfjord in Sokndal municipality in Rogaland. Subject to Dalane Folk Museum. On Helleren there are archaeological traces of settlement since the Stone Age. The cultural monument is located under a rock that is formed by a protruding mountain deepest by the Jøssingfjord. With its 60 meters in length, this is one of the largest of its kind in Norway. There have been several houses under this slab, but today there are only two wooden houses left. The two houses have no roof because they are protected by Helleren. The buildings date from the 19th century, but parts of the buildings may be considerably older. Probably there has been permanent settlement during Helleren from the 16th century. Source: Wikipedia For the Science Museum to 118 million kroner is still a construction site. A skeleton without much content. The plan is for the Dalane region’s largest cultural building ever to tell about the rich geology, the mining industry and the dramatic war history in the area. Exhibitions are planned to the smallest detail, but the money is lacking. Jøssing Jøssing was a name for anti-Nazi Norwegians during World War II. The name comes from the Altmark case in Jøssingfjorden in Sokndal Municipality on 16 February 1940. The term was originally used as an insult by the National Collection newspaper Fritt Folk, but the push was completely wrong; the word was quickly adopted by most people as an honorific. In fact, the -ing form made the term jøssing well suited as a counterpart to quisling, which in Norway was used about Norwegian collaborators with the enemy. Source: Wikipedia The museum is located in the innermost part of Jøssingfjorden in Sokndal, furthest south in Rogaland. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news – See what Oslo gets The building was first delayed due to pollution in the ground, and now there are sky-high prices for electricity and building materials due to war and energy crisis. – It is missing around 16 million kroner. But if you look at what is used for cultural buildings in Oslo, then it is small money, says Stuen. The state has given billions to cultural buildings in the capital in recent years. Recently, a new national museum opened for NOK 6.15 billion. The new Viking Age Museum in Oslo is estimated to cost NOK 3.1 billion. So far, the museum in Sokndal – with its more than 2,000 square meters – has received NOK 40 million from the state. – I think it is important to have culture throughout the country. Not just in Oslo. The state has already invested in us, and now we need help to complete the exhibition, so that the public gets what they deserve. The Science Museum also seeks help from private sponsors. Sokndal municipality has also provided a guarantee for a loan of 30 million in the project, and the four municipalities in the Dalane region have granted annual operating funds to repay the loan. The government cannot promise money The application for extra funding has been sent to the government. Political adviser in the Ministry of Culture, Oda Malmin (Labor). Photo: Ilja C. Hendel / Ministry of Culture – There is no doubt that the Science Museum is an exciting project. It is too early to say anything about the upcoming budget now. The proposed state budget for 2023 is ready in October, says political adviser Oda Malmin (Labor) in the Ministry of Culture. – The Archaeological Museum in Stavanger has also been waiting for years for money for a planned extension where drawings and projects are ready. Do we now see a tendency for the state to take less responsibility for cultural life outside Oslo? – On the contrary. The government wants to focus on a good cultural offer for people throughout the country, regardless of wallet and background, and this will be clear in our priorities in the future. It is important to remember that it often takes a long time from a project being started until it receives support from the Storting. In addition, we are in an extraordinary situation with high inflation and war in Ukraine, it also affects the Norwegian economy. Project manager Bess Grastveit shows an unfinished museum. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news Maybe the king will come When news visits two days before the opening, it is drilled and welded in empty showrooms. The narrow corridors in gray concrete are not chosen at random. – It’s like a mining trail. As if you are walking in the chairs, the sloping mine tunnels, says a proud project manager Bess Grastveit. Project manager Bess Grastveit has worked with the Science Museum for fifteen years and is proud of the result. Photo: Thomas Ystrøm / news Although the exhibitions are still missing, the audience can get a tour of the architecture, and they can watch a new documentary in the auditorium. “Jakten på Altmark” is about the German prisoner boat Altmark, which was boarded by the British in Jøssingfjorden in February 1940. – The story we tell is so unique and of national significance. This is so big that we must have a royal visit when we open in earnest, says Grastveit. When and if the money comes, the museum expects a construction period of nine months before the exhibitions can open.
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