Polar research at the Law School investigates legal aspects of international fisheries conventions. Social scientists at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science study relationships between national rights and obligations in Polar Regions and carry out socio-economic analyses of the management of Arctic marine biological resources. The Centre for Saami Studies aims to increase the focus on ethnic issues and studies of Arctic indigenous minority peoples. The University Library is busy increasing its collection of polar literature. Its database of polar literature is open to users the world over.
Close collaboration is maintained with colleagues in north-west Russia.
Exhibits at this splendid museum document Arctic and Antarctic history from earliest times with special emphasis on whaling and sealing in polar waters. The lecture series arranged by the Arctic Society and held at the museum provides a forum where polar enthusiasts, skippers, Arctic-pilots, hunters and trappers, whalers and sealers, polar researchers and their guests gather to listen to lectures, join in heated discussions, organise voluntary work and enjoy convivial society. The Arctic Society maintains the MS Polstjerna , the oldest working wooden sealing vessel in Norway. The Northern Lights Planetarium is the most northerly planetarium in the world. It s films and multivision shows present Arctic conditions including the Aurora Borealis and the polar night to the widest possible audience.