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senior curatorworking placeFrom 1996 and onwards I have joined the position as senior curator at The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, converted to a department of Art Museums of Bergen. 2007, due to a major museum consolidation in Norway. working fieldI am head of the Collection Department of The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, and my working fields are glass, ceramics and textile in general, and contemporary craft in particular. Moreover I am the coordinator of documentation and registration at the Art Museums of Bergen. My main preoccupation is collection management, and in 2006 I was the initiator and supervisor for the registration project "Obsessed by Possessions - Exposed Registration", digitizing the object information attached to our 35000 museum objects, and inviting the visitors "behind the doors". As answerable for the contemporary craft field, I am appointed to be the museum's representative in Innkjøpsfondet for norsk kunsthåndverk, and have been the supervisor for projects related to my fields, as "Burning Point Bergen" (2002) in co-operation with Bergen National College of Art, and "Knit7" in co-operation with The College of Sogn og Fjordane. research leaveFrom 2009 I gained 60 % research leave from the Art Museums of Bergen executing the research project "Mishmash and Trash - Museum Collecting in the Age of Virtuality", a part of K-value, a project supervised by Bergen National College of Art, and financed by Norwegian Research Council's research program "Kulver". |