The Arc

Exhibition framework

The Svalbard Archipelago

Memory of the World

Future Food Security

Learn about the efforts that are being made to ensure that our digital memory is made available for future enerations. Explore the various kinds of data that are being stored in the Arctic World Archive.

Discover the achievements and inner workings of the Global Seed Vault and gene banks. Learn why these efforts are essential to ensure the crop diversity required for humanity to be able to feed itself.

Explore the vast history of the archipelago by immersing yourself in large-scale 360° projections and immersive spatial audioscapes that take you through four different chapters of Svalbard’s geological and paleontological past. The signal tree in the center of ceremonial space invites you to contemplate climate change and the fragility (but also resilience) of life on Earth.