The Museum of Reconstruction for Finnmark and Northern Troms is currently showing the exhibition “Stunde Null”. The exhibition is made by Nordkapp maritime fagskole og videregående skole (High school) and is based on their cooperation with high - schools in Riga and Hamburg. The students from Norway, Latvia and Germany have interviewed people who experienced the first years after World War 2. The exhibition is made up by text and photographs from the work they have done. The exhibition ends on May 1. Admission is free.

On the 24th and 25th of February, The Museums for Coastal Heritage and Reconstruction in Finnmark hosted the historian Vibeke Kieding Banik from The University of Oslo. Banik gave a speech on Norwegian-Jewish history. The speech was the first in a number of lectures that are to be held in our museums regarding the Holocaust, and is a result of our involvement in the Comenius project TeacMem.

On July 22. 1809, early in the morning, about a hundered men in Hammerfest watched as two English warvessels approached the harbour. The men were locals, and they were prepared to operate the cannons, rifles and spears which were shiped to Hammerfest in hope that it would be possible to fight back an English attack on the town.