Kings Bay AS completes plan for Ny-Ålesund's protected buildings

The management plan for protected buildings of Kings Bay (the state-owned company that runs Ny-Ålesund) is now complete. Ny-Ålesund is one of the 100 prioritised cultural environments on Svalbard, and Kings Bay AS is responsible for looking after 27 automatically protected buildings, 11 preserved buildings and the cultural environment of Ny-Ålesund as a whole. The management plan deals with how the protected building stock can best be looked after, with references to regulations, and some general history about Ny-Ålesund and the protected buildings in the cultural environment in Ny-Ålesund. Both in the general part and the catalogue part there are many interesting old and new pictures that show how the buildings were before and the important building-history details that Kings Bay AS is to take care of in Ny-Ålesund (see management plan parts 1 to 4 and part 5).

Picture 1: Ny-Ålesund 1958. Photo: Kjell Olav Hansen. Picture 2: Green Harbour. Digitalt museum SVNF17522. Picture 3: Kullkaia. Photo: Velzeboer

The Royal Couple visiting Ny-Ålesund in 1995 in connection with the 70th anniversary. Photo: Rune Petter Ness