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From April 1 2018 until December 31 2022, the Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norsk Folkemuseum Foundation) supervised the research project “The Last Ice Age – The trade in natural ice as an agent for modernisation and economic integration”. The Norwegian Research council financed the project with a grant of 9,5 million Norwegian kroner (2018).
The aim of the project has been to place the ice trade in a broader context of geographical, economic, technological, and cultural developments. The work has served to illuminate the long term effects of the ice trade in the decades before chemical and mechanical means of refrigeration superseded it in the 20th century. The project has thus connected the Norwegian ice production to global phenomena and development traits.
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The project partners were the University of Southeast Norway, The University of Hull, Britain and the Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. The results include two PhD theses, two books published in English by Cappelen Damm, with two more to come. Several students on the Master level have been involved, and the project participants have so far published 14 peer reviewed articles.The project participants have delivered more than 100 public lectures.
Continuous dissemination, and contact with researchers and museum colleagues, local historians and other interested parties have all been integrated into the research strategy. This way, it has been possible to establish and maintain contact with people that have memories, photographic material, and archival resources to share. Likewise, we have by continually sharing results and sources inspired others to carry out research on the same field.
Interested?
Please contact senior curator Eyvind Bagle, The Norwegian Maritime Museum, Eyvind.bagle@marmuseum.no
See also the project facebook group