About the museum
The University Museum is situated in the heart of the city of Bergen, and comprizes two beautiful museum buildings surrounded by a botanical garden. The Museum Garden is the tranquil extension of two iconic Museum buildings in the city center. The Arboretum and Botanical Garden is an area of stunning natural beauty 23 km south of Bergen center at Milde.
The University has over 200 employees divided into the Department of Cultural History, Department of Natural History, Department for Collection Management, and Department of Science and Research Communication.
The University Museum it a multi-disciplinary research institution comprising natural and cultural history. The University Museum is responsible for collection, documentation, preservation, research and dissemination within its museum disciplines. The disciplines are anthropology, archaeology and art and cultural history, botany, geology and zoology. The University Museums collections are an invaluable and international infrastructure for research.
At the University Museum you can see objects from our cultural and natural historic collection. In the exhibitions we take you on a journey to explain how knowledge is produced at a University. You will meet both science and research from the museums own researchers as well as the research from other units at the University of Bergen.
