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The Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits on biology and history, for example in the form of taxidermal polar wildlife, geological samples from the surrounding area, a few archaeological artefacts from the Pomors, some information on the coal mining industry, and a slew of Soviet memorabilia.
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| dbo:abstract | The Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits on biology and history, for example in the form of taxidermal polar wildlife, geological samples from the surrounding area, a few archaeological artefacts from the Pomors, some information on the coal mining industry, and a slew of Soviet memorabilia. Located 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the regional capital Longyearbyen, the settlement was founded by Sweden in 1910 and purchased by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1927. A prominent coal mining settlement, Pyramiden once had a population numbering over a thousand, and a flourishing community. While on Norwegian territory, ruled by the Governor of Svalbard, the Svalbard Treaty of 1920 granted significant freedoms to signatory states in regards to their economic activities. Pyramiden – like the two other USSR-owned settlements on Spitsbergen, Grumant and Barentsburg – was administrated largely without Norwegian insight, and according to Soviet societal norms. Among the facilities found in the town was a museum, a direct predecessor of the currently existing one. In 1998, a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Pyramiden – still owned by Trust Arktikugol – was abandoned. For years it remained a ghost town, with only sporadic human activity. Most of the buildings, and the items in them, were left as they were. After over a decade of decay, Arktikugol started renovated the old "Tulip Hotel" in 2007, upgrading the infrastructure over the next few years to accommodate a minor tourist industry. Since then a handful of Russian workers tasked with maintaining the facilities and guiding tourists visiting from Longyearbyen have been living in Pyramiden. In addition to tourist and employee housing, the hotel houses a museum, which shares a room – adjacent from the hotel bar – with a souvenir shop and a postal office. (en) Pyramiden Museum är ett litet museum, som är inrymt i det 2013 återöppnade Tulip Hotel i den tidigare gruvorten Pyramiden vid Isfjorden i Svalbard. Museet visar historiska föremål och biologiska objekt, till exempel uppstoppade arktiska djur, geologiska prover från omgivningen samt ett fåtal arkeologiska artefakter från pomortiden. Det informerar också om ortens kolindustri. Pyramiden och dess kolindustri grundades av svenskar 1910. Orten och gruvan köptes av Sovietunionen 1927. Pyramiden övergavs 1998. Det ägs fortfarande av det statliga ryska gruvföretaget Trust Arktikugol. Pyramiden var länge en spökstad med endast tillfällig mänsklig närvaro. Flertalet byggnader lämnades som de var, men efter ett förfall under ett decennium började Arktikugol renovera det tidigare Tulip Hotel. Infrastrukturen har därefter rustats upp, så att det finns utrymme för en begränsad besöksnäring. (sv) |
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| rdfs:comment | The Pyramiden Museum is a small museum located in Pyramiden, an abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The museum features exhibits on biology and history, for example in the form of taxidermal polar wildlife, geological samples from the surrounding area, a few archaeological artefacts from the Pomors, some information on the coal mining industry, and a slew of Soviet memorabilia. (en) Pyramiden Museum är ett litet museum, som är inrymt i det 2013 återöppnade Tulip Hotel i den tidigare gruvorten Pyramiden vid Isfjorden i Svalbard. Museet visar historiska föremål och biologiska objekt, till exempel uppstoppade arktiska djur, geologiska prover från omgivningen samt ett fåtal arkeologiska artefakter från pomortiden. Det informerar också om ortens kolindustri. Pyramiden och dess kolindustri grundades av svenskar 1910. Orten och gruvan köptes av Sovietunionen 1927. (sv) |
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