North Atlantic everyday stories

The project is a collaboration between the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum, the Royal Danish Library, the National Museum of Denmark as well as local archives and national museums in Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

What roles do oral transmissions and family archives play in understandings of history and how can these be collected, registered and communicated in new ways? Based in interdisciplinary collaborations with local, regional and national partners and institutions in Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Denmark, the project ‘North Atlantic Everyday Stories’ preserves and communicates oral stories and family archives, providing new knowledge of their importance to our collective history.

The project integrates three significant approaches within contemporary anthropology and cultural heritage research: affect, narrative and material theory. The project contributes to scientific knowledge sharing, digitisation of site-specific stories and archival material, and to the communication of shared north Atlantic cultural heritage based on experimental approaches to co-creation, workshops and exhibition-making.