The Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen has been awarded the Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2008. The museum that displays Svalbard’s natural landscape and cultural history, competed against 59 other European museums for the award.
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The Norwegian artist Vebjørn Sand unveiled his Ice Bridge outside the UN building in New York City this week with massive media presence from all over the world. The bridge is an artistic effort to raise awareness of global climate change, and marks the beginning of Sand's "Live Ice" project.
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The songwriterfrom Bergen, Sondre Lerche, was chosen after director Peter Hedges had considered more than 500 artists to compose the official soundtrack for the movie "Dan In Real Life."
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The Norwegian Government has announced certain reallocations of Norway’s diplomatic presence abroad. As part of these changes the Consulate General in Minneapolis will be transformed to an Honorary Consulate General in mid-2008.
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Former Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S., Knut Vollebaek, received a 2007 Wittenberg Award at a ceremony at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington D.C., August 29, 2007.
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