Svalbard Murmansk shows replicas of Svalbard archaeology finds
An exhibition of replicas of archaeological finds from Svalbard opened in Murmansk, a Murmansk news site reported on Wednesday 11 November. It is part of an international scientific conference on Svalbard and runs from 10 to 12 November. Entry is free.
A Russian archaeological institute digitised 15 finds and made printed copies, which artists painted by hand. The originals stay in the Pomor museum in Barentsburg, because Norwegian law bars archaeological objects from leaving the archipelago, even for temporary exhibitions.
The show also presents, for the first time, a reconstruction of the appearance of a Pomor buried in a burial ground that archaeologists found at a settlement site in 2025.