By Elisabeth Niklasson & Herdis Hølleland
Feature photo: The 10th century Jelling stone is one of the heritage sites promoted by the Danish Peoples’ Party. (Wikipedia / By Ajepbah / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Over the last 20 years, the multifaceted ... Read more
By Jessica Phelps & Herdis Hølleland, NIKU
(Photo: Stephan Tschudi-Madsen – the head of Norway’s delegation to the World Heritage Committee. Av Åsgeir Valldal - Digitalt Museum/Norsk Folkemuseum, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How did Norway become ... Read more
Text and photo by Herdis Hølleland, NIKU
30 years of World Heritage limbo finally gets a happy ending as the Lake District makes the World Heritage List!
First nominated in the 1980s, the nomination was deferred at the World Heritage Committee meeting in 1987 ... Read more
Image: Jessica Phelps studying in the archives of the Directorate for Cultural Heritage.(Photo: NIKU)
Archives are fantastic, if somewhat underappreciated, resources for heritage research. Over the past few months, we have been digging deep into governmental ... Read more
