The Spitsbergen Airship Museum (Luftskipsmuseet på Spitsbergen) is a museum located on the island of Spitsbergen in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Arctic Ocean archipelago Svalbard. It has been formally renamed as the North Pole Expedition Museum.[citation needed] It was co-founded by the Italian Stefano Poli and the Norwegian Ingunn Løyning. Plans to open the museum began in 2005. Originally a new building was supposed to be built to house the museum,[1] but following a fallout with one of the share-owners in 2007 this idea was scrapped, and instead the Airship Museum was opened in 2008 in Longyearbyen's former pig farm, which previously had housed the Svalbard Museum as well.[2]
The year of opening was chosen due to its significance as the International Polar Year, the 80th anniversary of the Italia's crash, and the 30th anniversary of polar explorer and aviator Umberto Nobile's death. Several descendants of Nobile, and of Roald Amundsen who died during the rescue of the Italia crew, attended the opening ceremony, which was held on 15 November 2008.[2][3][4] In July 2012 the museum was relocated, to a newly constructed building closer to central Longyearbyen.[5]
There is a long history of aviation in modern Svalbard, documented by the Spitsbergen Airship Museum. Exhibits include artefacts from, and information relating to, several major expeditions carried out during the exploration of the Arctic region. Among these exploits are the journeys of airships such as the America (several failed attempts to reach the North Pole, 1906–1909), the Norge (first trip to the North Pole and first flight over the polar cap in 1926), and the Italia (and the subsequent rescue effort following its 1928 crash). Also featured is the 1897 expedition of the balloonist Salomon August Andrée, and the attempts to discover its fate. It attempts to portray these events in a neutral tone, taking no sides. The museum's collection includes a ribbon granted to Nobile by Benito Mussolini, parts of the Norge logbook, aircraft models, international newspaper clippings, and other various objects connected to the expeditions.[3][6][1]
^ abGuhnfeldt, Cato (24 January 2007). "Luftig prosjekt". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Oslo. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^ ab"Airship museum takes flight". Icepeople. Longyearbyen. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^ abJenssen, Eva Therese (11 November 2008). "Spitsbergen Airship Museum opens". www.unis.no. University Centre in Svalbard. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^"Spitsbergen Airship Museum open in Longyearbyen". www.forskningsradet.no. Research Council of Norway. 19 January 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^"About the North Pole Expedition Museum". www.spitsbergenairshipmuseum.com. Spitsbergen Airship Museum. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
^Sabadin, Vittorio (25 May 2014). "Salvate Nobile lo ordina l'assicurazione". La Stampa (in Italian). Turin. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
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