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the museum. They were curious, and some of them also collected things for us. They got an owner's attitude to the museum. When we opened the museum, there were about 1000 visitors in the workmen's dwelling in one week. At that time we had already produced a slides show called "The children at Bakke", which told about the living conditions in the neighbourhood around the workmen's dwellings. It became very popular, and today slide shows are our speciality. Since little or nothing had been done to collect the history of industrial Odda until this museum project was established, we had to form different groups to work with various subjects. One group started to collect working equipment at the Norzink factory in order to display the work in a big factory. Unfortunately much was already thrown away. We therefore had to involve the specialists in their own history, and my task was to advice, co-ordinate and encourage the museum work. For example we succeeded in documenting by photos and tape recordings the last working day at the old production hall at Norzink. Little by little the museum became a reality and a positive factor in people's mind, and thus their identity was strengthened. This was not the case when the work with the museum started. Then people from Odda often felt discriminated and thought that their history was of little value because the factories here were polluters. It was merely a shame to tell for example people in the capital of Oslo that you came from Odda, a terrible place with heavy industry and politically radical people . . After three years of work paid by the local authorities, the trade unions, the power company and the factories, the Western Norway Industrial Museum was established with three persons fully employed, a curator and leader, an archivist and a secretary, all women. As from now the museum also got a yearly grant from the state. The museum experienced a great deal of goodwill from the local society and received project money from the state for pioneer work in the field of documentation of industrial history. We also catalogued and saved the voluminous archives at the three factories and the hydro power station for the purpose of research and preservation. Gradually we also succeeded in restoring three workmen's dwellings and started on the next neglected field, architecture and the history of technology. We engaged the museum in the issue of pollution. This was a touchy topic for many persons in the local society. To put it simply, it was not good public relation policy. In addition the pollution problems did not catch much interest among ordinary people at that time. Today, with many of the pollution problems being solved, the museum is asked to show all sides of the industry, 198
and what we lost when the air and the fjord were severely polluted by heavy metal waste. We also depict the process of cleaning up the fjord and, in this respect, measurements taken by the local industry and the government. In 1988 this discussion was a hot topic in the news, and some inhabitants felt that Odda was a scapegoat. The town was looked down upon because of the production of heavy metals, which were bought by other countries as necessities in modem welfare states. The museum produced a slides show on the pollution problem, and we also have interviews and photos from this period. It must be mentioned that we are not a pure technical and industrial museum. We have made an effort to describe all sides of the society, and naturally this means that we also try to present the social history in our society. What is the status of the museum today? The local politicians and the Mayor are well aware of the value of the work done by the museum. They are 100% behind our proposals and grant us as much money as they can, but it is not enough to cover the costs of the work we are doing. It is expensive to take care of our industrial history. Odda is an important town in the Norwegian industry. The monuments here are of great national interest, and therefore we feel that the government must grant more money in the future. Tyssedal power station dates back to 1908 and was one of the biggest power stations in Norway and Europe when it was built. It is no wonder therefore that the key word of our museum activity is "With water as a key resource". We took the initiative together with the local politicians to get the power station and the intake pipes acknowledged as listed monuments. The power company no longer produces hydro electricity in this building and wanted to remove the equipment from 1908 - 1989 (unique machinery) in order to use the building for the production of small fish or other commercial purposes. To my mind Tyssedal power station is unique also because of the fact that it is the heart of the very existence of this society. It has been dependent on electricity for the last 90 years. At present the government wants to secure the middle part of the power station with its interior and let the remaining parts be used for commercial purposes, decided by the power company. The museum and the local politicians however, want to save the entire building. The final decision is yet to be made. The industrial town of Tyssedal was planned by the most prominent Norwegian architects, and we can still read this place like a book. A clear 199
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heritage as community appropriation
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MUSEUMS and COMMUNITIES: a powerful
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have many of the great museums adop
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climate around them, and once this
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to all. It appears that history can
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insitutional ideas of Pierre Bourdi
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