Mengyao Xia is a PhD candidate in social design at Kyushu University in Japan. Her research explores aesthetic democracy and material-based, participatory methods in an AI-mediated visual culture. During her stay at the Bodø City Museum as a guest curator, she has worked practically in the exhibition space with map material related to Hans Ragnar Mathisen, and describes the experience as an important meeting between theory and practice.  

A meeting at a seminar during the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø was the starting point for a long-term collaboration between artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen and Taiwanese, Tromsø-based artist Lin Pei-Han. Now the collaboration is highlighted in connection with the exhibition Chronology of Urgencies at the Bodø City Museum.

When “made in Bodø” was a given - here is this spring's lecture

This fall, the City Museum will once again be filled with city history. This time, we will take a closer look at industry and production in Bodø throughout the 20th century.

Security, sovereignty and the shadows of conflict - welcome to the opening of the exhibition First Strike City by Dan Mariner on June 14!

Today, much of what we use and consume is produced far away – in China or elsewhere on the globe. But what has happened to us on the way there? What do we really live on today, and what can we learn from the past? 

A renovated, expanded and universally designed museum opened on June 19, 2024. In collaboration with the Árran Lulesamisk Senter, the City Museum has appeared in a new guise as Bådåddjo/Buvvda Musea throughout the cultural year 2024.

The protected cultural monument, the Bodø City Museum, will open its doors to the public on June 19. It is one of the city's most distinctive buildings, which in a new look and function will contribute to public education, aesthetic experiences, cultural meetings and dialogue, the dissemination of history and the exchange of opinions for many more years, and thus continue the building's already 120-year history rich in tradition.

It has been a busy autumn for the mediators at the Bodø City Museum – the museum that currently goes by the alias Bådåddjo/Buvvda Musea 2024. In connection with the Capital of Culture year, the museum has transformed itself into a Sami museum, focusing on Sami art and culture.