TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
| Rock Art World Heritage Alta |
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Exhibition produced at the museum about the rock art of Alta opening at the beginning of June 2009.
In Alta, there are five areas containing rock carvings or rock paintings, which are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In all, there are 6000 figures distributed at 97 panels. Only 14 of the panels are made accessible to the audience, all of them in Hjemmeluft where the World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum is situated.
With this new exhibition the museum seeks to give the audience a taste of the variety of rock art in Alta, and it is mainly rock art from inaccessible panels which are presented.
The exhibition is open all summer.
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| German World Heritage |
| An exhibition of photos taken by Hans-J Aubert of 32 World Heritage sites in Germany can be seen at the WH Centre – Alta Museum to August 31st 2009. The exhibition was produced by the Foreign Office of the German Federal Republic and the German UNESCO Commission. The German Embassy in Oslo organised the presentation of this travelling exhibition in Norway and Tanja Knittler from the embassy’s section for culture and the press attended the opening in Alta on May 6th.
Visitors can acquaint themselves with monuments from the rich and multifaceted German natural and cultural history, and compare this with Alta’s own two properties on the World Heritage List: the prehistoric rock art in the museum park and the Lille Raipas measuring point along the Struve Geodetic Arc. Most people have heard about the Cathedral of Cologne and the palaces in Potsdam and Berlin. But people may not know so much about the Roman monuments along the frontiers of the Roman Empire or the great medieval monasteries of Maulbronn and Reichenau or the Bauhaus architecture of Weimar and Dessau or the Völkingen Ironworks. It may be of special interest learn a bit about the Messel Fossil Site, (the finding place for the missing link, Ida, presented to the world this year by the University Museum in Oslo).
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