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56-785: The Ringve Botantical Garden in Lade in Trondheim Municipality as well as Kongsvoll Alpine Garden in Dovre Municipality are also under the jurisdiction of the NTNU University Museum. The museum has its roots in the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( Norwegian : Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS , formerly "The Trondheim Society", Norwegian : Det Trondheimske Selskab ) since 1760. Since 1968,

112-515: A long-term scale; archaeology and advanced technologies alongside dating methods and the development of chronologies. The museum is involved in a number of research projects including DNA barcoding and the Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR Lab). DNA barcoding uses similarities in the genetic material of organisms to identify species. The AUR Lab is a part of NTNU's efforts within ocean research within

168-508: A part of our cultural heritage and identity as a layer in a larger environmental and resource management effort. It is a national responsibility to protect these resources as scientific resources and as a sustainable basis for the experiences, self-understanding, enjoyment, and being of current and future generations. The museum's geographic jurisdictions is outlined in the Act's second paragraph: The Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag counties,

224-671: A primary school, Lade School Other institutions located at Lade include the shopping centre City Lade and the Norwegian Geological Survey . Lade has one of the few beaches in Trondheim. It has become a popular area with high housing prices. Lade is connected to Lademoen by the Nordland Line , but only two stations offer services to Lade: Haakon VII Ave and Rotvoll . In 1958, the Ladelinjen tramway

280-594: Is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. The municipality is under the jurisdiction of the Helgeland District Court and the Hålogaland Court of Appeal . The municipal council ( Kommunestyre ) of Bindal is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms. The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party . The mayor ( Norwegian : ordfører ) of Bindal

336-699: Is a neighborhood in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway . It is in the borough of Østbyen , just northeast of the city centre of Midtbyen and north of the Lademoen neighborhood. Lade is located on a peninsula bordering the Trondheimsfjord , an important waterway dating back to the Viking Age . It is the site of the historic Lade estate ( Lade gaard ) and of Lade Church ( Lade kirke ), which dates to around 1190. Historically,

392-512: Is now the Ringve Museum , the national museum of music. Ringve Botanical Garden is also at Lade. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology formerly had a campus at Lade; the buildings have been repurposed. Most of Lade is now suburban housing, superstores , industry , and some recreational areas, and is zoned for high car access. There are two secondary schools : Ladejarlen Secondary School and Ringve Secondary School, and

448-616: Is part of the Sør-Helgeland prosti ( deanery ) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland . Bindal borders four municipalities in Trøndelag county: Høylandet Municipality and Nærøysund Municipality in the south, Namsskogan Municipality in the southeast, and Leka Municipality in the west. Bindal also has borders Sømna Municipality , Brønnøy Municipality , and Grane Municipality in Nordland county. The Bindalsfjorden runs through

504-525: Is permanent. It primarily focuses on recreating life in Trondheim during the Catholic Middle Ages, circa 1010–1537, through a simulated image created from objects and building ruins found underneath Trondheim streets. Norway's oldest wooden constructions were found in Trondheim, and these buildings have been reconstructed based on the results of archaeological findings. This exhibit opened on February 5, 2017, and remained on displayed throughout

560-649: Is responsible for the museum's exhibition business. This includes the production and operations of the exhibitions, sometimes on contract from external partners, as well as activities and events, educational programs, hosting programs, and the museum gift shop. This section also cooperates with the NTNU Communications Department to coordinate the lecture series "NTNU Night". The National Laboratory for Dating uses natural scientific measuring methods to date archaeological, natural historic, and geological materials. The laboratory for carbon-14 dating

616-436: Is tasked with developing and conveying knowledge about nature and culture. It is also responsible for protecting and preserving scientific collections, as well as making them available for research, development, and propagation. The Cultural Heritage Act defines the tasks and scopes of such work in paragraph 1: Cultural heritage items and cultural heritage environments in distinctive and varied nature shall be protected both as

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672-489: Is the only laboratory in Norway that performs dating measurements of archaeological and natural scientific samples of organic materials. The laboratory also dates lumber by means of rings via dendrochronology . The museum's main areas of research are taxonomy , biological systematics , and evolutionary history; ecological processes and species development; human-nature interactions; cultural materials and forms of culture on

728-572: Is the political leader of the municipality and the chairperson of the municipal council. Here is a list of people who have held this position (incomplete list): The most important industries in Bindal are aquaculture , farming and forestry . Boat races for Nordland boats have been held annually since 1978 in the main village of Terråk during the last weekend of June. Bindal has a traditional boat-building industry and Nordland boats are still manufactured here. Bindal has two schools; one of them

784-509: The Nordland county. The merger between NTNU, Gjørvik University College, Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST), and Ålesund University College took effect on January 1, 2016. The activities of each faculty in NTNU continued as usually with small changes in 2016, while preparations were made in different areas in regards to study plans, professional and administrative organizing, and quality control in all areas in anticipation of January 1, 2017,

840-748: The Ocean Space Science and Technology department. In December 2011, the museum took over the coordination of the Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL) project, which is Norway's contribution to The International Barcode of Life project (iBOL). The museum has several laboratories in addition to the National Laboratory for Dating. The Conversation Laboratory is responsible for managing the museum's collections. This includes both biological and cultural-historical objects stored in special magazines and/or exhibitions, along with

896-464: The 12th century until the 19th century, particularly church equipment that was replaced in the latter half of the 19th century. Most of these objects had a liturgical function and were received by the museum as gifts or through sales. The collection is not open to the public, but is used for studies. The museum's coin collection was established around 1840 and contains approximately 50,000 coins, medallions, bank notes, and chips. The most important part of

952-622: The 18 th century as a transition period between the Middle Age church-dominated worldview and the start of the modern era - the Enlightenment Era and the Scientific Revolution . It offers an image of Trondheim in the 18 th centyrt, the early learning environment and the conditions for the establishment of DKNVS. The exhibition deals with astronomy and science, technological advancements, and societal upheaval,

1008-434: The 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The collection even contains German bank notes from the 1920s, including the 50 billion mark. This collection contains more than 200,000 items that were found in the massive excavation in the city's center. A few of these findings date back to before the city's foundation at Nidarneset, but most of them are from the 11th century or more recent. The Middle Ages exhibition displays findings from

1064-406: The 357 municipalities in Norway. Bindal is the 306th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,399. The municipality's population density is 1.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.1/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 10% over the previous 10-year period. The ancient district of Bindalen belonged to Namdalen . However, in 1658, when the county ( län ) of Trondheim

1120-648: The DKNVS's operations and exhibition business. Books and publications play an important role in the exhibit, alongside the original printings and illustrations. The exhibit regarding Central Norway 's prehistory covers a span of 10,000 years, from the early Stone Age until the 11 th century BCE. It contains tools of flint, quartz, and slate from the Stone Age. From the Bronze Age, the exhibit contains jewelry, weapons, and tools from bronze from abroad. Findings from

1176-686: The Lade estate ( Lade Storgård i Trondheim ) was the seat of the Jarls of Lade ( Ladejarler ), a dynasty of rulers of Trøndelag and Hålogaland who were influential from the 9th century to the 11th century. The Lade estate then became crown property and sometime in the Middle Ages passed into the control of Bakke Abbey . After the abbey was dissolved in 1537 during the Reformation , the estate crown property once again. The present farm buildings on

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1232-573: The Lade estate were erected in 1811 at the direction of Hilmar Meincke Krohg . The farm was purchased by the city of Trondheim in 1917. From 1922 until 1960, it was the site of the Norwegian College of Teaching in Trondheim, now Norwegian College of General Sciences . In 1992, the farm was acquired by the Reitan Group . The buildings were restored and became their headquarters in 1995. Another former estate at Lade, Ringve gård ,

1288-544: The Norwegian Environmental Agency, through research projects, and from the environmental protection departments of the region's various county governors. The workshop is also responsible for restoring older stuffed animals, and takes samples for DNA or environmental analyses. The Molecular Laboratory extracts DNA from all types of organisms. It has equipment for duplicating DNA fragments , measuring DNA concentrations, electrophoresis studies, and

1344-628: The Norwegian counterpart in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). In addition to the dry samples, the museum's collections also contains living plants in the botanical gardens in Ringve and Kongsvoll. The museum's collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils are among the earliest collected objects in Norway's museums. The collection contains around 8000 objects, where roughly 30 minerals are from

1400-530: The Reitan family also live there. Bindal Municipality Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county , Norway . The administrative centre is the village of Terråk . Other villages include Bindalseidet , Holm , Vassås , Horsfjord and Åbygda . The 1,266-square-kilometre (489 sq mi) municipality is the 81st largest by area out of

1456-581: The Section for Public Exhibitions have administrative offices in this building. In the building Suhmhuset , the museum runs the "Middle Ages in Trondheim" exhibition, which was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award in 1997. This building also houses the "Who Owns History" exhibit containing southern Sami archaeological items. Schøninghuset contains the museum's administration,

1512-626: The Year" in 2010. Reidar Andersen has been the museum director since August 1, 2013. The museum's history can be traced to 1760, when two Norwegians, bishop Johan Ernst Gunnerus and historian and rector Gerhard Schøning , and the Danish historian Peter Frederik Suhm established Det Trondhiemske Selskab. In 1767, the society received royal confirmation of its statutes, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS)

1568-762: The building Gunnerushuset , archaeological exhibits from the Stone , Bronze , and Iron ages, along with the Viking Age in Central Norway are placed on display. The building also houses other exhibits, like the "1760 - Science at the Edge of the World" exhibition. This exhibition addresses the history of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and a few items from the museum's very first collections. The Institute for Archaeology and Cultural History, along with

1624-775: The central part of the municipality. From the coast, the municipality reaches into the mountains towards the lake Majavatnet in Grane. The highest point in the municipality is the 1,088.13-metre (3,570.0 ft) tall mountain Tjeldviktinden on the border with Brønnøy Municipality . Another notable mountain is the 1,058-metre (3,471 ft) tall Heilhornet . It also includes part of the lakes Eidvatnet and Fjellvatnet , which also partially lie in Brønnøy Municipality . Other lakes include Åbjørvatnet , Kalvvatnet , and Saglivatnet . The river Åbjøra runs through

1680-407: The city archaeological collection. This collection contains around 906,000 objects, from insects to stuffed animals. Some of these items are over 200 years old, but the most represented are from the 20th century. A particularly well-preserved collection is the "Type Collection", which consists of specimens that were used to define and describe new species. Around 90% of the collection is registered in

1736-565: The collection contains coins from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages , discovered at archaeological excavations, along with some incidental finds in Romsdal, Nord-Møre, Trøndelag, and the southern parts of Nordland. The collection also contains donations, like the Arne E. Holm 's collection of Greek, Roman, and Byzantium coins and Anton Røstad's collection of European coins and bank notes from

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1792-454: The country into civil municipalities which were supposed to correspond to the parishes of the Church of Norway . The parish of Bindalen (which straddled the county border) was created as Bindal Municipality, but the southern part was part of Nordre Trondheim county and the northern part of the municipality belonged to Nordland county, making for an unusual situation. In 1852, the county border

1848-470: The early Iron Age reflect tapestry-weaving, goldsmithing, blacksmithing, and imports from the Roman Empire . The exhibition is the only preserved "classical" archaeological exhibit in Norway. Human tools, jewelry, and weapons are exhibited in the manner in which they were found, without an attempt to reconstruct living environments or objects. Lade, Trondheim Lade ( Old Norse : Hlaðir )

1904-426: The eastern part of Bindal. Part of the island of Austra is in Bindal. Bindal Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services , senior citizen services, welfare and other social services , zoning , economic development , and municipal roads and utilities. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor

1960-485: The establishment of the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology (NTNU). From this point, the museum was officially referred to as the NTNU University Museum. In 2005, the museum was elevated to the same title as the faculties within NTNU and became a semi-independent entity within the university, placed directly under the jurisdiction of the university leadership like any other faculty. The museum

2016-504: The field symbolizes the importance of the sea and boating and the circular arrangement of rivets was chosen to symbolize the importance of the boat building industry in Bindal. There are six rivets to represent 6 school districts, 6 originally inhabited islands, and 6 fjords areas in the municipality. The arms were designed by Arvid Sveen. The Church of Norway has two parishes ( sokn ) within Bindal Municipality. It

2072-418: The institute has had the special responsibility of building and maintain scientific collections of objects and long-term data series. The institute also operates a taxidermy laboratory, two botanical gardens, and provides training and student advising within its professional scope. The Institute of Archaeology and Cultural History deals with research in pre-historic, historic, and Sami archaeology and operates

2128-418: The laboratory for preservation technology. The institute has had the special responsibility for implementing archaeological surveys and excavations in Trøndelag , Nordmøre , Romsdal , and Helgeland . The institute has a conservation laboratory, and is responsible for the cultural history collections. The institute also provides training for profession-oriented archaeology. The Section for Public Exhibitions

2184-542: The larger part remained in Trondheim county and became Sør-Bindalen (and part of the Kingdom of Sweden ). The two remained separate after Trøndelag county was reunited with Norway in 1660. In 1815, a single Church of Norway prestegjeld called Bindalen was created, combining Nord-Bindalen and Sør-Bindalen into one church parish, despite belonging to different counties. The 1838 formannskapsdistrikt law divided

2240-510: The municipalities Molde , Kristiansund , Vestnes , Rauma , Nesset , Midsund , Sandøy , Aukra , Fræna , Eide , Averøy , Frei , Gjemnes , Tingvoll , Sunndal , Surnadal , Rindal , Aure , Halsa , Tustna , and Smøla in the Møre og Romsdal counties, along with the municipalities Bindal , Sømna , Brønnøy , Vega , Vevelstad , Herøy , Alstahaug , Leirfjord , Vefsn , Grane , Hattfjelldal , Dønna , Nesna , Hemnes , and Rana in

2296-483: The museum was closely affiliated with the University of Trondheim, then with NTNU since 1996. In addition to managing archives and producing exhibits, the museum participates in larger research projects and cooperates with other university museums in digitizing collected works and building databases. Norway's Museum Union ( Norwegian : Norges museumsforbund ) named the NTNU University Museum "Norway's Museum of

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2352-569: The museum works with other Norwegian university museums to digitize collections/pictures of each item. In 2007, the museum established the University Museums' IT Organization ( Norwegian : Universitetsmuseenes IT-organisasjon ), which makes these digitized collections available through the university museums' collective access points. These collections date back to the 1760s, when DKVNS began collecting natural history and cultural history materials. This collection contains objects from

2408-605: The museum's first catalog in 1779. None of the items in the geological collection are placed on display today. The museum has both fixed, permanent exhibitions, as well as temporary exhibitions. These are partially arranged by the museum itself, while others are organized by guest exhibitions produced by other institutions or organizations, or in collaboration with the museum and other entities. The exhibitions are shown in three buildings in Kalvskinnet in Trondheim: In

2464-407: The museum's own database, ZOOTRON. The main part of the botanical collection contains dried plants in herbaria. The collection also contains objects, tissue samples, and DNA extracts stored in frozen states and other dry-storage object collections. Most of the herbaria materials are registered in national databases. Occurrence data can also be found in the mapping service Artskart and GBIF-Norge ,

2520-619: The offices for the Institute of Natural History, and several magazines. As of April 2017, the museum has been in the process of a reorganization due to the large exhibit, "BODY WORLDS Vital", which was displayed in Gunnerhuset between June 8 and October 8, 2017. Several of the museum's exhibits were removed to make room for BODY WORLDS Vital. Several were replaced again, either entirely or partially after October 2017. The following exhibits remained during "BODY WORLDS Vital": This exhibit

2576-480: The official completion of the merger. As a part of the merger between NTNU and the three colleges, the museum's own organization was changed, such that the professional divisions were clarified: The other two sections are mainly service providers and were organized into the museum administration virtually unaltered: The Institute of Natural History deals with research within biogeography, biosystems, and ecology, with an emphasis on preservation biology. Within NTNU,

2632-404: The past 11,000 years, i.e. from roughly 8000 BCE until the present date. The types of objects vary from small fragments of flint to gold jewelry. The collection also contains everyday tools and stones and metal weapons and jewelry crafted from metal, animal horns, and wood. The prehistoric exhibition has placed some of these objects on display. This collection contains church art and equipment from

2688-403: The preparation of samples for DNA sequencing. This work is central for the research projects involving NorBOL, whereby a registry of species using short, standardized pieces of genetic material (DNA Barcoding) is made available. The museum has scientific collections within cultural history, zoology, botany, and geology. Since it is not possible to display all of its objects within their buildings,

2744-486: The preservation of findings that cannot be moved to other locations (like rock art). The laboratory arranges magazines for the collections, carries responsibility for the climate control of the exhibitions, and protects and conserves art. The Taxidermy Workshop prepares animals for exhibitions or research projects. The museum receives animals that have died as a result of hunting, traffic collisions, or natural causes. The workshop will accept animals from private individuals,

2800-446: The river name Birna (now called the river Åbjøra ). The river name is derived from the word birna which means "(female) bear ". The last element is dalr which means " valley " or "dale". Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled Bindalen . On 3 November 1917, a royal resolution changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to Bindal , removing the definite form ending -en . The coat of arms

2856-712: The year. It was produced in conjunction with Tråante 2017 and in collaboration with collaboration with the Saemien Sijte  [ no ] Southern Sámi museum, the Rørosmuseet  [ no ] museum, and the Lesja Village Museum  [ no ] . The exhibit includes finds that show the Sámi presence in Southern Norway far earlier than previously thought. The exhibit depicts

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2912-472: Was built from Lade to Prinsensgate, but in 1988 the line was closed with the rest of the Trondheim Tramway because the city of Trondheim did not have adequate funding to keep it going. Some sections have not been removed and can still be seen. Lade has many locally famous people living in it. Footballer Per Ciljan Skjelbred grew up there and built a house there. The multi-millionaire members of

2968-572: Was ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Roskilde , the status of the border district was ambiguous, with residents paying some taxes to Helgeland , in Nordland , and some to Namdalen. The decision was then made to redraw the county boundary to run down the Bindalsfjorden and assigning the northern part, Nord-Bindalen , to Nordland county (which remained in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway ) and

3024-420: Was granted on 9 February 1990. The official blazon is " Azure , six nails Or in annulo" ( Norwegian : I blått seks gull nagler i rosett ). This means the arms have a blue field (background) and the charge is a circular arrangement of six nails or rivets . The charge has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The blue color in

3080-467: Was moved so that all of Bindal Municipality was located in Nordland county. On 1 January 1964, the area around the inner Bindalsfjorden and the village of Lande (population: 296) was transferred from Bindal Municipality to Brønnøy Municipality . The municipality (originally the parish ) is named after the Bindalen valley ( Old Norse : Birnudalr ). The first element is the genitive case of

3136-580: Was officially formed. DKNVS then began the process of collecting archaeological and natural history materials, which eventually became the organization's main task. In 1926, the DKNVS was reorganized and split into an academy and museum, and the DKNVS Museum has since then operated independently. With the establishment of the University in Trondheim in 1968, the museum merged with the university. A new reorganization effective January 1, 1996 lead to

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