Permanent exhibition
2. etasje, Brøggers hus
The North Atlantic has existed for just under 200 million years. Evidence of the formation of the sea, and the life that existed both before and after, is still preserved in the seabed.
We can drill deep into this seabed to retrieve fossils and sediments, allowing us to uncover the history of the North Sea. Some of the seabed further north in the Barents Sea has ended up as land, now forming Svalbard. On land, it is easier to find fossils, so the stories can be told in even greater detail.
In this exhibition, we present the geological history of the marine area from the North Sea to the Barents Sea.
The exhibition covers the formation of rocks, geologists' search for resources, fossils as witnesses of time, and plate tectonics as a driving force in the opening of a sea.
All of this is conveyed through a deep dive into the geology of the North Sea, which we have detailed knowledge of through the mapping conducted by the oil industry.