In the Nordlandsmuseet collection we find M/B Teisten, a motorized eight-ring and a unique example of the transition from traditional northern Norwegian boatbuilding to modern motorized fishing. She is physical evidence of one of the most dramatic changes in Norwegian fishing history.

Large, pointed, and deadly, hatpins were effectively open stabbing weapons in public. The newspapers were full of stories of people being stabbed in the face, and in the worst case, in the eye.

"I am angry with myself for the collection, but it cannot be undone," Knut Hamsun wrote about his only collection of poems, The Wild Choir from 1904. It is a harsh judgment of his own poetic work, but one he has largely come to share in since. Hamsun's attempts to work outside the novel genre have consistently been met with a certain coolness.

A display case from the 1880s lay ready to be burned on a scrap heap in Bodø A random passerby stopped, looked closer, and saved what is now one of the main objects in the Made in Bodø exhibition.

In the Nordlandsmuseet collection there is a rune bar from Bjørsvik in Nordfold in Steigen The object entered the museum's collection in 1976.